Not revolutionary

Rating: 4/10 (16 February 2015)

I've seen worse movies but 50 isn't what I thought or hoped it would be. It was dreadfully corny in places (Oh Mr Grey, I'm a virgin don't you know!) and didn't do anything for female sexual equality (her nipples each deserved their own credits at the end of the movie but you saw virtually nothing of him). He is lovely and I'm sure is a good actor but for me just wasn't charismatic enough in this role. Then there is the plain daft. He's a 27 year old billionaire who is a corporate giant - really, are you kidding me? And she just happens to work in a hardware store!!!! Also, that pushing the boundaries of sexual experimentation is linked to him having been abused as a very young child and arguable sexually abused as a 15 year old. Surely, if this is about sexual experimentation and freedom, this should just be motivated by adult pleasure? According to friends who have read the book, it focuses a lot on a bloke who is prepared to spend a lot of effort pleasuring a woman. But that wasn't portrayed in the movie. It was quite dark in places and I found him scary but the one thing she never said was 'blooming eck, your a bit of a weirdo aren't you?'. Consensus of opinion is 3.5 out of 10. The people sitting next to us left after about 40 mins. We found this very funny and odd - how could you not know what this movie is about?! Although it might have been that it took forever to get to the sex and then there wasn't a whole heap.