No chemistry!

Rating: 1/10 (15 February 2015)

Pro (there is one): pretty cinematography Cons: lifeless, bland, no chemistry between the main characters, corny lines, horrible writing, boring, weird casting choices, very few and tame sex scenes, insincere and forced "passion" and bad acting
My fiancé and I wasted our Valentine's Day night watching this. There were times in the movie where the dialogue or the line was so corny that the entire movie theater laughed. I had relatively high expectations for the movie. I read the 3 books a few years ago. While they certainly reeked of Bella and Edward, and poorly written erotica, this movie is worse. It was so boring. A very poor adaption of an already poorly thought out story.
Jamie Dornan was not good a fit for Christian Grey. I have see him in a few other things and enjoy his work. I'm not sure if it was the writing or him, but everything he said came out awkward and overly rehearsed. The American accent did not work great for him either. Dakota Johnson I did not really like either for this role. I have never seen her in many thing else but while she fits the character of Ana more than Jamie fits Christian, I feel like her acting was not great. Everyone else in this filmed absolutely sucked at acting as well (or maybe it was the poor screenplay - I don't know). I noticed they took a lot of stuff verbatim from the book - it was a lot better left on paper. A lot of the lines, like I said, just sounded unnatural and weird.
One thing this movie lacked a lot of was the natural grace and realistic dialogue that good acting has. The actors and the screenplay sounded very unrealistic and nothing anyone would ever actually say in real life. It was just not relatable - it totally missed that very important aspect of believability and naturalness. Everything sounded over produced and scripted.
This movie also has one of the most severe cases of lack of chemistry that I have ever seen between two main love interest characters. I didn't feel like it was believable at all that they liked each other. It felt like a lot of weird fake forced passion from Christian's end and again just really unnatural.
Not to mention, the movie was super boring, even more so than the book. The plot seemed very predictable and I am not exactly sure where the climax of the movie was supposed to be. I guess the end - but it was a pretty dry climax.
Neither my boyfriend or I enjoyed this movie and I feel like I wasted my money. Way over hyped. There are no real redeemable qualities about the actors, writing, sex or anything else that a good movie has. I do applaud the great marketing campaign this movie committed to for most of 2014. Unfortunately it was a lot of hype for a major let down. I really wanted to like it but it is probably one of the worst movies I have seen in a while.