Frustrating, pointless, a missed opportunity

Rating: 3/10 (19 March 2015)

I personally didn't read the book before watching this movie (and now I probably never will anyway), so I can't make a comparison between both.
I didn't like the movie one bit and felt like there was absolutely zero chemistry between the two lead characters. It makes you wonder why they're attracted to each other and the characteristics of both figures seem completely off.
Jamie Dorman attempts to portray the character of Christian Grey who is supposed to be this dominant, wealthy businessman that wants his counterpart to submissively surrender to fulfil all his sexual needs. Why he chooses Anastasia is beyond me, as he can certainly find a lot of way more attractive women to fulfil those needs than her, who are as 'innocent' as she is or are willing to play that role. I get it, Anastasia isn't used to anything sexually and that arouses Grey's dominant nature, but when she constantly argues with what she wants to do and can voice her opinion and wills time and time again, it just doesn't make sense.
Dakota Johnson portrays Anastasia Steele as this innocent girl with no sexual experience to speak of, yet suddenly goes all out with someone she barely knows and interferes in all kinds of SM role playing that she doesn't know anything about. I mean she even asks Grey, when he talks about his 'play room' with a seductive face (well again, attempting it), if that's the room where he plays on his consoles like the XBOX, Playstation and whatnot. Has she been living in a cave all her life? Then she enters the room and asks all these dumb questions about what everything is used for, yet a couple of scenes later she's making up a contract and acts like a very confident young lady, who knows exactly what she wants to try and leave out.
The characters; the relationship; the lack of plot; the awful acting; it all just doesn't make any sense and it makes for a really terrible movie.
This movie will still do great in the box office though, because of the enormous hype surrounding it, which is the reason why you can't even blame directors for junk like this. If there's a demand for crap, they'll squash one out and collect the money.
Disappointing, as the concept could make for a psychologically thrilling movie. Sex is a very complicated and weird phenomenon and the struggle between what's normal and what's not, and what crosses the line and what doesn't, could make for a really interesting screenplay. Especially when both characters would actually unmistakably fall in love with each other and if there was actually a lot of chemistry noticeable between the both of them. None of which is seen in this movie.
Truly a missed opportunity.