50 Shades of Grey

Rating: 6/10 (10 March 2018)

Disappointing sequel to a great movie. Plot can be summarized in 2.5 words: "Where's Waldo". Overlong at 2 hours and 43.5 minutes. Approximately 60 minutes of this were scenes of grey city rubble in a grey mist. This was contrasted with some 30 minutes of colorful holograms, including a one-"woman" fashion show, a gigantic 'coca-cola' can plus other adds, female "billboards", sumptuous dinners disguising unpalatable meals, etc. Harrison Ford gets top billing and we get to see him for about 15 minutes at the end. Most "humans" are depicted as drug addicts or something equivalent. The most empathetic character in the film is a stray dog that we see for two minutes, but maybe that's the point of this whole exercise. Go see the original or wait for the sequel: "The Rise of the Replicants".