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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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.
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.
Great plot, and acting, but it was actually hilarious to see an Italian diesel locomotive to suddenly pop up in the middle of the woods,in a story that meant to take place in the United States. What happened to the person in charge of continuity? It reminded me of some embarrassing errors dating back to silent blockbusters while shooting ancient Rome sequences with extras wearing wrist watches.
This is really two movies crammed into one movie. The first part is about 1hour and 33 minutes long. #2 is about 15 seconds long. At the end. The very end. Movie #1 is pretty good. Not great, but good acting overall, good set design, pretty good script. #1 occasionally dragged for a couple minutes at a time but then something interesting would happen (usually Meyers). Banderas was excellent as the boozing going- down-the-drain writer. The ending of Movie #1 fit the picture and made sense in an adult way. I would rate Movie#1 at about 6.5. Movie #2. You have got to be kidding me. Who let this stupid idea into an otherwise acceptable piece of work. Any editor worth their salt would have snipped this ridiculous and viewer-insulting little bit of crap out of the movie without telling anybody. Fortunately #2 only lasts about ten or fifteen seconds at the very end of the movie so if you're fast on the draw you can save yourself. If Movie#2 remains part of Movie#1 I'd drop my rating to 4. And I'm being generous here as #2 really ruined an otherwise interesting film. Combined rating is a 5. And they should consider themselves lucky to get it too.