![]() ![]() The set-up is a simple one: bookish Anastasia Steele (Johnson) meets Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), a business tycoon hiding a troubled past, a lust for BDSM (not the driving school) and a penchant for playing really miserable tunes on the piano. Instead, we get a sparky first third, a rote obsessive love story, anodyne kinkiness, contentious sexual politics, slivers of skilful filmmaking and a promising turn from Dakota Johnson. James’ Twilight fan fiction-turned-phenomenon is neither so terrible to be laughable nor so brilliant to be powerful. Arriving with all the appendages of a modern blockbuster - a Beyoncé tie-in, a trailer YouTubed 193 million times, a LEGO parody - Fifty Shades Of Grey is one of those movies that the “internet” had condemned terrible, sight unseen.
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