Black Butterfly (2017)
Paul is a down-on-his-luck screenwriter who picks up a drifter and offers him a place to stay. However, when the deranged stranger takes Paul hostage and forces him to write, their unhinged relationship brings buried secrets to light.
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Since his fall from being in the Hollywood "A" list, Antonio Banderas hasn't been terribly successful in finding quality direct to video productions to star in, and "Black Butterfly" doesn't do anything to break him out of the doldrums. I will admit that I never got to the point of being bored by what I was seeing. However, all the same the movie failed to engage me. It's a very slow-moving movie, taking much longer to get to key points in its storyline. It takes about 40% of the movie for the Banderas character to realize that he might be unsafe about the hitchhiker he has invited into his home. But what's worse about the movie is the two (yes, two) twists the movie decides to pull off in its last half hour. While I admit I didn't see the first twist coming, right after it was pulled off, it instantly became ludicrous when thinking about it. And I thought about it a lot. Even worse is the second twist at the very end of the movie, a clichéd and oh-so-tired twist that essentially makes what we have seen up to that point a waste of time. Had the movie instead gone the more logical and believable route, and ditched those two twists, we might have had an okay thriller. But as it is, it will most likely frustrate and anger viewers.P.S. Attempts to pass the shot in Italy countryside as being Colorado are very unsuccessful.
Great movie until you realize it's another 'it was all just a dream' cheats. Too many of these movies throughout history make you feel like you've been ripped off because the author lacks the imagination to resolve the film with a well-devised ending. Cheap gimmick spoils what could have been - and should have been - a quality film. Sad.
Antonio Banderas is great in this film, I don't get to see him in a lot these days, but he was good in this.Banderas plays Paul, a struggling novel writer who lives in a cabin in the woods or at least in a rural area in the country. One day, he drives along and picks up a seemingly average hitcher named Jack walking along, and decides in good faith to give him a lift to wherever he needs to go.The man seems friendly and needs a place to stay for the night, at Paul's cabin, Jack sees Paul's manuscript and expresses interest in helping Paul write on the script and whatever else Paul needs done around the cabin during his stay. Just then, Paul's world is turned upside down for the worst!I only got to see this at least once but I'm surprised I can still remember it pretty well, all though I'm a little fuzzy on the way things played out. I don't what to give away the twists in this, because the twists are very good and unpredictable.Johnathon Rhys Meyers is great as the mysterious Jack as well as Piper Parabo who plays Paul's associate in business.Overall a good unpredictable thriller that was refreshingly original, at least in concept. I would defiantly see this again, it is, I think, a re-watchable film at best.I give this a 7/10. Antonio Bandaras is very good with an equally good supporting cast. Highly recommended.
~ starts out flat, with almost no character development, lots of dialog but no real interaction between them and their actions, becomes boring and predictable at a certain point; then it hits you, and for 2 minutes it becomes a great f*****g movie only to mess up everything in the end and give you the cheapest solution possible.