This film revolves around a young family of Chicago, Neil Randall (Gerard Butler) and his wife Abby Randall (Maria Bello). They have the perfect marriage of life and peace with their only daughter, Sophie (Emma Karwandy) 5-year-old.
Neil, a marketing executive, was at the peak of his career and he could not refuse his boss’s invitation to spend the weekend at a villa. A rumor had circulated that anyone who invited the boss to his villa will usually be promotion. It was Abby’s birthday, a beautiful and loving wife. With the reason that he does not want to mess up the opportunity for promotion, the plans were drawn up. Neil will meet his boss while Abby have fun with her friend, and the child, Sophie, will be looked after by a hired nanny.
The weekend had arrived. After the baby-sitter arrived, they both went by car. Neil plans to take her to her friend before she left town. Suddenly, from the backseat of the Range Rover, came Tom Ryan (Pierce Brosnan), the psychopath who claimed to have kidnapped Shopie.
From the backseat, Ryan makes Neil and Abby must obey all orders, which sometimes made no sense. If not, then the caregiver, who was none other than Ryan’s accomplice, will kill Shopie. It is not money that Ryan really wants. After touring the town until the evening, Ryan asked for ransom in fact: Neil should eliminate their own boss in return for Shopie’s lives.
Neil’s heart was filled with dismay, because he knew that people who are in the villa that was not his boss, but someone else. A secret is finally revealed and completing a puzzle throughout the film.
Pierce Brosnan managed to take off all of the status of protagonist that he wakes up many years since the Remington Steel up to James Bond to take on the role as a psychopath named Tom Ryan.
Butterfly on a Wheel is a strand of sentences from a poem by Alexander Pope, Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot made in January 1735. In the 308 line poem, Pope wrote ”Who breaks a butterfly upon a wheel.” The phrase is usually interpreted as a question why someone doing business that damage to get something small or unimportant. And, Tom Ryan is the destroyer of it.
