Butterfly on a Wheel

7/27/20071h 35m

Theatrical Release (US)

~ Lives will be broken ~

Overview:

A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.

Director:

Mike Barker

Status:

Released

Language:

English

Buget:

$20,000,000.00

Revenue:

$0.00

Key words:

chicago, illinois
infidelity
man woman relationship
revenge

Cast

Pierce Brosnan

~ as ~

Tom Ryan

Maria Bello

~ as ~

Abby Randall

Gerard Butler

~ as ~

Neil Randall

Emma Karwandy

~ as ~

Sophie Randall

Claudette Mink

~ as ~

Judy Ryan

Desiree Zurowski

~ as ~

Helen Schriver

Nicholas Lea

~ as ~

Jerry Crane

Peter Keleghan

~ as ~

Karl Granger

Samantha Ferris

~ as ~

Diane

Malcolm Stewart

~ as ~

Dave Carver

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Reviews (1)

John Chard
Written 6 year(s) ago
7
Never pick a fight with someone who's got nothing to lose.

Butterfly on a Wheel (AKA: Shattered) is directed by Mike Barker and written by William Morrissey. It stars Pierce Brosnan, Maria Bello and Gerard Butler. Music is by Robert Duncan and cinematography by Ashley Rowe.

Butler and Bello play a seemingly happily married couple who have an adorable young daughter into the fold. Enter a rather sinister Brosnan who announces he has kidnapped the daughter and requires the couple to do everything he asks. Pressure is on then!?

Basically this is just real solid kidnap thriller film making, the kind that we were well served with back in the 1980s, and with that in mind this comes off like a throw back to that decade. Brosnan (how nice to see him doing a natural Irish brogue) grows ever more spiteful, while of course our handsome couple get more frantic.

But naturally there's a mystery going on here, we are left in no doubt about that there is something lurking beyond the edges of the frames. To which the inevitable twist, on which the whole pic's very being depends upon, will either make or break how you ultimately feel about the piece as a whole.

I liked it. 7/10