Fifty Shades of Grey is not a good movie, but I would be lying to you if I said it was horrible. Most of it coasts along on just being lifeless and dull, and relies on the actress at the center of the enterprise to provide the charm. This keeps the dialogue from being really boring, but overall most of the aesthetic of the film is. Dakota Johnson though is perfect. She has real talent, and frankly it has me wondering why she's in a film with such a shitty script? Then I realize that the film wouldn't be very interesting or compelling without her. Jamie Dornan's not going to be winning any awards. It is literally (or for the grammar Nazi's of the world figuratively) like an explosion of energy acting opposite of a piece of wood. Johnson is just so much better then him. Honestly I really can't talk to much about this movie because there's not a lot here. The set's are cold, the cinematography is good...but also pretty cold. I realize that since I'm a 15 year old boy some might expect me to mention the sexual content in the film, but it like every thing else in the film feels cold. I can think of multiple examples whenever I could have probably orchestrated scenes with much more effectiveness. The tone of certain scenes of the film is way off which just makes the entire thing seem even more uninteresting, and even worse cringe worthy. Sam Taylor Johnson made a good movie with her first film Nowhere Boy, and I'm actually a little sad to see that she did this. I don't really want to blame her though. I've heard the material that inspired this was bad in the first place, and here other then Johnson's performance the adaptation is just uninteresting. She's completely watchable,and one of the only reasons too. It just doesn't have any heat. I give Fifty Shades of Grey a 5 out of 10.
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