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.

Wizard-8 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.

jamespetermy This is one of the greatest shows I have ever seen after some time...it really brings you deep diving into the show...very well directed and acted...by all..the dialogues were superb and of high qualities...you can just glue to the show...the story twists were great too...very smartly made...just a perfect show!!! I love this movie so much...planned to watch again soon...hope there will be more of this kind of shows in future....well done! The director as we all as the actors all did so well. The show really sticks to the mind thats for sure!!!! Well done!!!

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.