I admit I had reservations going in. I haven’t read the book, but I heard that
this series started out as Twilight fan fiction. Two reasons to worry right there.
This is the story of how Anastasia, a virginal college
student, begins a very messed up relationship with Christian Grey. Christian is rich, good looking, runs his own
company, and he’s also into BDSM. Rather
than date women, he likes to just have kinky bondage sex with them. Since Anastasia hasn’t even had sex before,
this is a big eye opener for her.
There isn’t much story here.
The screenwriter doesn’t sweat the details. We don’t learn anything about Christian’s
business or how he got so successful. We
don’t know much about Anastasia’s friends or family. Even the two main characters aren’t developed
very well. The dialogue is bad and the
characters’ motivations make no sense.
At times, the story did interest me. It is interesting seeing Anastasia get more
self confidence and stand up to Christian.
And I was curious to see where their relationships would go. But I got tired of them having the same
conversations over and over again. She
keeps asking why they can’t have a normal relationship, and all he’ll tell her
is that that’s what he’s into.
This could have been an interesting story if it was written
better. But most of the time I was just
bored. Some of the lines were
unintentionally funny, and even the 50 Shades fans who were there laughed quite
a bit. This movie is critic proof,
meaning the people who want to see it will go no matter what I say. But if you’re not a fan and you’re just
curious, don’t bother.
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