4/10

Rating: 4/10 (18 February 2015)

OK so lets give some disclaimers right away here. Firstly, all I knew about 50 Shades of Grey going in was that it involved BDSM. Nothing more. I knew about the hate that surrounds this property, but never understood why. I really went into this movie with an open mind, I wanted to see if it was really that bad and I really wanted to take something good out of it. Moreover I have no problem with its content. I really don't give a f**k about "controversy" and don't believe in "taboo topics", I am totally a supporter of freedom of expression and I would be OK with a movie that looked at anything really no matter how weird or out there, provided that it is doing something right. So having said that, understand that I did not hate this movie just to jump on the band wagon, I really wanted to come out with a fresh opinion and actually was forgiving with the film earlier on.
Is "Fifty Shades of Grey" a trainwreck? No. It has some interesting cinematography, the performances are good and the direction is somewhat smooth and keeps things fluent until the hour and forty five minute mark more or less. So as much as looking back I really can't help but dislike the incoherence of this movie I cannot give it a lower grade because I would be lying if I told you that I wasn't intrigued for a very good portion of it, knowing nothing going in, I wanted to understand what was the deal. By the way, very good soundtrack and score by Elfman.
But, that's really all of it. I have two big negatives that I think ruin and make this whole concept worthless. Firstly, it is nor nasty nor seducing enough, it is so safe! With the material involved I wanted a deep psychological exploration, I wanted to feel the weirdness, I wanted to be shocked and surprised and moreover I wanted to be seduced by the leads. The fault is not theirs though, they give performances that you couldn't really brag on because they're good; the fault is with the tone of the movie overall that made all of what it was build up for, fall flat. Second point: that fu**ing, idiotic, melodramatic, useless, dumb, anticlimactic, boring ending was impossible to bear. Other that giving absolutely no fu**ing resolution to the characters or an explanation to their motivations it is so inherently absorbed in itself it made it even worse. Those last 15 minutes made me really angry.
"Fifty Shades of Grey" has some good moments and promises early on to be better than your expectations, but the more it goes on the more you will ask yourself what was all the fuss about. All in all it is just another bad movie.