sex scenes are lame, plot is ignorant and insulting

Rating: 1/10 (16 July 2015)

A baser reason one might watch this is to see the sex scenes, but even those are disappointing. The BDSM stuff that is actually shown is the kind that non-kinky folks might try just to be mix things up a bit in the bedroom. When I hear about places banning or cutting scenes, I wonder if the filmmakers encouraged this to build a rep. There are loads of better sources for bondage scenes out there, making this movie totally worthless in that department.
Now it would be interesting to explore the dynamic that might result if two people fell in love where one of them is way into BDSM and the other is categorically turned off by that stuff. It would be cool to see love set against an irresolvable sexual preference in that way, and to explore the process of discovering how much trust and respect between people is really involved in BDSM stuff. Unfortunately this movie doesn't do those things.
Instead, the film tries to convince us that the only reason someone might be into dominance role-playing is if he's a controlling selfish jerk who is not capable of love. The movie's only victory is a completely failure to communicate, both between the characters on screen, and between the filmmakers and their subject matter.