Black Butterfly (2017)

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

When you had good actors and pretty good story, its hard to make mistake, but director of this movie was managed it. I m not sure what is the worst, directing or editing? I had a feeling the director and the editor were in some argue when they making the movie. So, when I saw reviews from other users I cant believe that was the same movie. Conclusion is: You can freely skip this movie. :(

This movie became awful at the end when it turns out to be all a dream/imagination. Everybody is commenting on how the plot has a lot of twist and how it could have been better and how actors didn't act their part properly......IT DOESN't MATTER!! cause Banderas was dreaming it anyway. They could have put a flying car before he woke up and it still doesn't matter because he was dreaming it anyways. The movie was OK, and the fact that it was a dream made it bad.....and because it was a dream, the story line or plot DOES NOT MATTER......To sum up the movie it was about a writer that got "stuck" on writing a story and had a dream of a story, the end.

SPOILER ALERT Antonio Banderas was terrific. Others were average at best. This was a great movie because it was so believable until the last 10 minutes. Some Hollywood executive screwed up the movie by asking for a twist ending. And isn't that exactly what Antonio Bandera's character hated his agent, asking him to change his book To make it more appealable to the masses ? So ironic.

I do not seen yet, "Papillon noir", the French movie with the ex-soccer player Eric Cantona acting in it (God save us all...), but i do have seen the two U.S. movies which this movie reminds me a lot of: Stephen King's "Misery" directed by Rob Reiner & the underrated "Bad Company" a.k.a. "The Nature of the Beast" in some countries, directed by Victor Salva and starring Eric Roberts & Lance Henriksen. The most funny thing about it, is that Jimmy Caan's character in "Misery" is called Paul (like Antonio Banderas in this flick) & Jonathan Rhys-Myers looks and acts like a young Eric Roberts. Apart from the obvious similarities, "Black Butterfly" tells a story of a Spanish veteran novelist & screenwriter, Pablo "Paul" Lopez (Antonio Banderas), isolated in a cabin located in a rural area where a serial killer is killing women. He was been boozing for years and have a writer's block and needs a good story to save him from bankruptcy. One day, Paul gives a lift to a drifter called Jack (Jonathan Rhys-Meyers), after he defends him from a brawl in the local diner and the grateful writer invites his savior to spend the night in his cabin. Things start to complicate when Jack develops a strange & violent behavior... Second motion picture helm'd by the actor-turned-director, Brian Goodman, "Black Butterfly" is a tepid thriller, pedestrian directed over lots of badly written dialogue and full of implausibilities & inaccuracies, with the gratuitous plot twists lurking on, like in every flick of this over-saturated genre. Even if the viewer have never seen the movies above-mentioned, this thriller is so predictable and unimaginative that without its screen stars which deliver OK performances and a certain intriguing 3rd act it would be thrash bin. Well, an intriguing 3rd act who is devastated by a lousy and downright terrible, end. On a positive note: it's way better than the other flick that the 'washed-out' Antonio Banderas (he's been downhill since his divorce from Melanie Griffith) released this year, "Security", that one is just an unwatchable mess. I didn't watch "Salty" yet, but judging Banderas' latest efforts, i'm afraid to lose my time and money on it. Jonathan Rhys-Meyers have a watchable quality in him, but he needs to find another agent and Piper Perabo shows that she aged (unlike her acting skills). In short, "Black Butterfly" is a passable thriller only for the less demanding viewers, for the others, please don't spend your hard earned money on this one.