Pierce Brosnan

Maria Bello

Gerard Butler

Emma Karwandy

Claudette Mink

Desiree Zurowski

Nicholas Lea

Peter Keleghan

Samantha Ferris

Malcolm Stewart

Callum Keith Rennie

Dustin Milligan

Julie Patzwald

Jason McKinnon

Kurt Evans

Aaron Douglas

Steven Roy

William Vince

Bruce Davey

William Morrissey

Ron McLeod

Julia Blackman

Mike Barker

Jeff Abberley

Marina Grasic

Bill Sheppard

Robert Duncan

David Valleau

Guy Bensley

Beau St. Clair

Ashley Rowe

Michael Potkins

Martin Bigham

Alan D. Sacks

Stewart Whelan

James D. Brown

Ed Anders

Rob Gray

Michael N. Wong

James Willcock

John Bloomfield

Erin Ayanian

Vanessa Giles

Bron Roylance

Heike Brandstatter

John Hubbard

Ros Hubbard

Coreen Mayrs

Michael Neilson

Crime

Drama

Thriller

Butterfly on a Wheel

Icon Productions

Irish Dreamtime

Infinity Features

Butterfly Productions

Chum Television

Canada

United States of America

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

English

Butterfly on a Wheel / Shattered trailer