Absolutely painful

Rating: 1/10 (18 December 2015)

This is the reason why directors and screen writers need to refrain from deviating from the source material AND this is the reason that just because a book does well that doesn't mean that Hollywood should rush to-yet another-meal ticket to make fast money.
This film was agony to watch from the very beginning. This is the first film I have watched where, I wasn't completely literate of the source material, but knew enough to make an accurate assessment on how the story should progress and this film is so far from that it's not even funny.
I had heard that the two stars were poorly cast and that they had the chemistry of a box of cereal, and I must concur. To me even though the chemistry was bad, it's the casting of every actor in this film that's bad. I know, give the actors a chance. Not when I spend my hard earned money. I'm not a fan of this novel based series. So when my money goes into it, as with any investment, I want a return on that investment and this was just a complete waste of money and time.
Just absolutely painful to watch. To me the only time it's okay to deviate, even the slightest, is when the order of events are so intricate that is would be hard to condense the film down into a reasonable time frame, even if it is spread out between more than one film. I get that sometimes the person cast may not be the most accurate choice as the characters are depicted in the source and in some cases, the only choice available, but I simply don't see where that would be the case with this film.
Not to mention this was the lamest execution of BDSM that I have ever seen. Submissive NEVER need to be convinced. They are like that from the very beginning and voluntarily give themselves to their dominant. They already know the rules and they already have a clue as to what they want done to them. There is NEVER a negotiation. It took me out of this film entirely.