Surprisingly good

Rating: 8/10 (14 February 2015)

After all the bad reviews and the trailers I went to see this movie together with my wife. The overall atmosphere in the cinema was quite disturbing, 90% female teens and a lot of laughter all the time.
But the movie really was a positive surprise. The overall plot is similar to romances like Pretty Woman and filmed in a quite cold style, but very professionally made and really very similar to the book.
Dakota Johnson has delivered a very nice performance, Jamie Dornan also plays his role quite nicely even though visually he isn't such a good fit to Christian Grey. But the overall romance story flows down very nicely and is fun.
The erotic part has been filmed very nicely, it doesn't show too much but in some scenes there is really some hard whipping and BSDM play. It shows in an interesting way how someone into BDSM tries to introduce someone new to this into this sexual play. Really good performance. Even though some people may claim that this isn't the real way how this looks in real live it's a nice approach. And it has been filmed in a way that it's not too hard, still a bit funny or with the blink of an eye.
So I was positively surprised and cannot understand why there are so many one star ratings.