Fifty Shades of Grey
2015
*
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eloise Mumford, Jennifer Ehle, Marcia Gay Harden, Victor Rasuk, Luke Grimes, Rita Ora, Max Martini, Callum Keith Rennie
Anastasia Steele is a pretty lit student who interviews the handsome 27-year-old entrepreneur Christian Grey. Sparks fly immediately, but Christian admits outright that he will not date, make love, cuddle, or sleep over. He prefers hard BDSM sex and and would like Anastasia to sign a non-disclosure agreement before he starts inflicting pain. This incredibly boring and untitillating adaptation of E. L. James' controversial novel is unlikely to offend anyone apart from people who like their movies well scripted and acted. Sam Taylor-Johnson delivers a snail-paced two-hour foreplay which alludes to something kinky and unusual, but ends just when it gets to the heart of the matter. Nudity is limited to T&A and the characters are just laughable: Anastasia is a strong-willed virgin and Christian is an unsympathetic bully, but she just cannot resist a billionaire who can afford to take her on awe-inspiring helicopter and glider flights. Sadly this is only the first part of a trilogy.
