Whatever it is, it's awkward all the way.

Rating: 3/10 (14 August 2017)

I saw so many low reviews here, then I just finished watching it, I feel the urge to justify what I just watched.
I've never read the book, never felt that I have to watch this whatsoever, I do have friends active in dungeon scenes and BDSM but this movie is not related to any of the hardcore stuff at all, and no inspiration at all. This movie is not "legit" BDSM, not legit "porn", not legit "obscure poetry", not legit "Love Story".
It's just a piece of AWKWARD patchwork.
Basically it's a story of a newly graduated girl who's virgin to love and to sex and fell for a rich okay-looking guy who has issues expressing true emotions cos of childhood trauma and blah blah blah, and he thinks BDSM is his way-out.
Basically that's it.
What makes me think the whole movie is an award patchwork is that.. 1. In the beginning they fell for each other super quickly by simply staring at each other All The Time(that explained why people feel both leads acting quite poorly). There's no clue or reason why he/she? Because she's stupid/pretty/naive??? because he is the only successful sorta okay-looking young biz man left? Nothing suggested in the beginning, nor later. Just leave audience like what??!! (so this is the flattest way you could to interpret love at first sight) And where does that emotional attachment between two characters that director you try to build come from??
2. If people are looking forward to some steamy scenes, and/or take a glimpse to BDSM, this movie is way too disappointing. The movie amplified Anastasia's(played by Dakota Johnson) nervousness, naivety, fear and Trying, to boost Grey's(played by Jamie Dornan) S/M behaviors. And it turned out no emotional calls to the audience, no real steamy actions appeared to empower the dark theme the audience may have wished to be surprised...There are way more European erotic movies and/or porn at least provide the sensation, sometimes even knowledge. Not even European erotic movies, one French movie called Les Regrets, it's about two people in their 40s fell for each other, sex scenes in that was even more appealing and enjoyable than this one.
3. Details in the movie, lives of 2 leads and so forth, seemed super redundant. Some reviews here said Grey is a stalker, but hey some boys/girls love to show up to give the other half surprise. The problem is the pacing of the normal life scenes were shot so boring and so flat(there's no powerful punch in this movie that make the audience care) No point, no connections in details themselves. Anastasia's mom and dad have no function and no inspiration in this movie. Their roles could have been deleted. Grey's suit and demeanor are so stiff that it confused me if the actor's acting really bad or the character is stiff in such a horribly boring way.
I felt Dakota Johnson was trying to play a poor lovely girl and it was okay to me but I wished the director and male lead could have been different. It's just an awkward patchwork.