Butterfly is a new action drama on Amazon Prime, opening with Rebecca (the stunning Reina Hardesty) having gone to Seoul to bump off the Sudanese finance minister, starting off with clandestine spy stuff before she’s spotted, then it’s all guns blazing and a fight in a glass lift.
So, things don’t exactly go to pla, which annoys angry rogue blonde woman Juno (Piper Perabo – Angel Has Fallen), who organised the operation.
Meanwhile, David Jung (Daniel Dae Kim, one of many celebs to go all narcissistic in early 2020, by telling us they’d caught COVID19. Yes, you and the rest of us!) gets in the mix with all this, as he’s also good at running, jumping and shooting. Are they going to duel? Either way, for all his dexterity, there’s a moment where he wipes clean a van that he’s stolen and dumped in a car park, then puts the key fob nearby with his fingerprints all over it… so, he ain’t that bright!
Somewhere, somehow, his daughter is out there somewhere, and before long, I could guess that there’ll be some double-crossing along the way, as I’ve seen this sort of thing a zillion times before.
Butterfly really is Cliché Central. Still, it’s better than Amazon Prime’s $300m early 2023 Christmas turkey Citadel, but then so is the test card.
Oh, and one thing which could be considered a potential spoiler, although it comes 20 seconds into the trailer…
Butterfly is on Prime Video now.
It’s not yet available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD, but if it is in future, it will be listed on the New DVD, Blu-ray, 3D and 4K releases UK page.
Check out the trailer below:
Cert: 
Running time: 45-50 minutes per episode (6 episodes)
Release date: August 13th 2025
Studio: Prime Video
Format: 2.39:1
Series Directors: Kim Jin-min, Kitao Sakurai
Creators: Steph Cha, Ken Woodruff
Writers: Jann Turner, Blaize Ali-Watkins, Steph Cha, Ashley Darnall, Mason Hsieh, Aaron Lam, Sung Rno, Ken Woodruff, Diana Son, Denise Thé
Graphic novel: Arash Amel
Music: Curtis Green, Min He
Cast:
David Jung: Daniel Dae Kim
Rebecca: Reina Hardesty
Oliver: Louis Landau
Juno: Piper Perabo
Eunju Kim: Kim Tae-hee
Hollis: Sean Dulake
Senator Dawson: Charles Parnell
Gun: Kim Ji-hoon
Moon: Seoyeon Jang
Yong Shik Choi: Park Hae-soo
Doo Tae Kim: Sung Dong-il
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