Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Celia A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

yjudith Definitely a thriller!! What I loved the most about this film is as it progresses you begin to realize nothing is what it seems, and even if it is, you really cant be sure. LOVE IT!!! I enjoyed seeing Antonio Banderas; I think he is underrated as an actor. And Jonathan Rhys Meyers...I've liked everything I've seen him. Great story even though I was a tad disappointed at the end.

msghall 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.

waywardroute ~ 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.

DeuceWild_77 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.