Can't decide if I loved it or hated it........

Rating: 5/10 (2 March 2015)

Well the media PR around this film has been genius, as the film certainly lacked the wow I thought it would have. The leads had chemistry but in honesty I felt short changed watching this. There was little depth to Grey, he was too smiley and smooth by far and he kept launching back to his Irish accent that was distracting. Dakota Johnson held her own, bringing more to the character than Dornan but you can't really get away from the story itself - naive virgin becomes sex goddess overnight and takes on a depraved perverted older guy without flinching!! The filming itself was very arty, and used beautiful locations but if I hadn't know it was Sam Taylor-Johnson directing, I would have thought it was made by a man for men to watch given the proportion of Johnson's nudity to Dornan's. Overall it was very very lacking, and it falls down to the fact the books were over rated and over hyped with no substance and that's what translated to screen.