It looks like Neil is no random victim but Butterfly on a Wheel needed to make the situation regarding the Randall's perverse and bizarre. The couple argue as try to do the tasks required of them knowing their daughter is in danger. He is playing games with Neil, taunting him to reveal more of his character. The man is a sociopath who cares little about money. The man knows a lot about Neil, his business practices and seems to be testing him as to how far he would go to save his child. First the man wants the Randall's to empty their bank account only to set the money on fire and throw it away in the river. A gunman (Pierce Brosnan) pops up from the backseat of the car telling the couple that their daughter has been kidnapped. One day while Neil and his wife Abby (Maria Bello) are heading to spend time with his boss over a possible promotion leaving their daughter with a babysitter. Neil Randall (Gerard Butler) is an advertising executive climbing the corporate ladder. Summing up: Basically tricky and shallow at the core. And the final scene between Butler and Bello is totally unbelievable as to motivation. Without giving away more of the plot (except to say that there is a mildly interesting twist toward the end followed by a double twist), the whole thing plays more like a made-for-TV movie than an actual film because none of the characters are more than one-dimensional despite the good acting. A grungy looking Brosnan makes the villain a very unappetizing psychotic and we're never quite sure about Butler either, an ad agency man who gradually loses his swaggering overconfident manner. Never once do we get a hint of why he's going to such extremes to torture the couple by demanding that they perform tasks at his bidding. While it does generate a certain amount of suspense, Brosnan's character remains an enigma for almost the whole story. The plot is an elaborate cat-and-mouse game that Brosnan plays with the unlucky couple, Butler and Bello. Brosnan's villain is below par for the actor and Butler has done better work elsewhere although he gives all his energy to the role of a distraught husband. Seeing it on TNT, it's understandable that the film had some problems in connecting with a larger audience. Once again, a Gerard Butler film with limited distribution even though co-starred with PIERCE BROSNAN and MARIA BELLO.
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Instead, they went a more direct route-directly to TV on TNT, which seems more like a last resort. The producers of BUTTERFLY ON A WHEEL (a/k/a SHATTERED in U.S.), didn't have enough faith in their project to seek widespread theatrical distribution of the finished film-even though it had GERARD BUTLER fresh from his box-office triumph in "300". Reviewed by Doylenf 5 / 10 TNT premiere showing of "Shattered". But, why is this perfect stranger bent on destroying three innocents?-Nick Riganas Now, Abby and Neil have no other choice but to do Tom's bidding if they want to keep their child alive-and with every task they successfully perform-they see a piece of their orderly life being robbed from them. However, their seemingly idyllic life will start crumbling into pieces when, out of the blue, the determined and methodical gunman, Tom Ryan, holds them captive, as his cold-blooded accomplice uses Sophie for leverage. The happily-married couple of Neil and Abby Randall have worked very hard to create a healthy and safe bubble for themselves and their only daughter, Sophie.
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