No real originality on the story

Rating: 4/10 (18 February 2015)

After interviewing him for her campus newspaper, Anastasia Steele gets close to Christian Grey, her college's benefactor. Soon, Christian saves her from being abused while she's drunk. He then dazzles her with a fancy date. But as she surrenders herself to him, Christian instead reveals a bit about himself and shows Ana his play room, filled with BDSM equipments. He offers her a contract to be his 'submissive' while he becomes the 'dominant'. They have sex that night, but not in the play room as Ana says she will review the contract.
Ana and Christian discuss the contract in a business meeting, with her striking out items which don't fit her. For Ana's graduation Christian buys her a new car. He even takes Ana to see his parents. Ana goes to see her mother in Georgia the next day, and Christian flies there to see her. More and more Ana tries to convince Christian into a more normal relationship but he refuses again and again. He reveals bit by bit that he had a rough past which shaped him into his behaviors. But eventually Ana can't stand of Christian's obsessions anymore and decides to walk away.
Well that's just about the shortest synopsis I've ever written so far for my reviews here. Why, you may ask? It's because that For me the movie offers a very predictable set of story, all the way from the background to the development, to the final ending. Yes I haven't read the book, and what I watched was a rather incomplete copy of the movie that I have to watch it again when a better is available, but I'd say I agree to those negative comments about this movie.
In my eyes, the story and character backgrounds are a full copycat. People say that this is just a lame BDSM fan fiction of Twilight. Well I say that even Twilight is better than this movie for the romance angle. For me this movie feels like a slightly modified version of the famous Meteor Garden / Boys Before Flowers drama from back in the early 2000s.
The story is just that drama series, minus the other insignificant three guys, plus the BDSM, jam packed into a Hollywood 100-minute long movie script. All the elements are in perfectly; the wealthy yet dominant male lead, the innocent female lead, meeting the male's parents, and even the piano sit in uncut, even though many of those elements get tweaked to account for the focus shift to the added BDSM elements. With them in place, the movie lost the unpredictability aspect, which makes it quite boring from the early fifteen minutes or so.
The romance is just nothing special. There's no relationship build-up that takes some time. There are montages accompanied by the good soundtracks, then they suddenly move to the BDSM build-up. Having said that even Twilight is better than this movie, I find it very strange that the focus on the BDSM is kind of reluctant. There are too many cuts and edits into those scenes that they give out Dakota's body double away. There goes both the romance and BDSM angle.
The acting overall is just a decent one. Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan played out their focus roles at just standard levels of performance, nothing bad but also nothing special. Although I should emphasize that while she kind of gets the innocent angle for Ana, Dakota Johnson didn't really get the sexy part for the submissive scenes. Jamie Dornan looks like he didn't realize that the movie's focus is about the two characters that he displays only the same expressions over and over.
My say for Fifty Shades of Grey (2015) is just a 5 out of 10 score. It's not quite an entertainment for me due to the story gets so predictable. A recommendation is just a so-so considering the high anticipation this movie gained. But seriously, wetting yourselves in the cinemas for this is just stupid.