A film adaptation of a book is only as good as the original book

Rating: 6/10 (26 February 2015)

A film adaptation of a book is limited by the quality of the original book. And let's face it, 50 Shades of Grey the book was pretty awful. Cringe worthy dialog, incredibly slow and with a noteworthy redeeming quality which gave it worldwide acclaim - lots of sex. I think many of the readers must have skipped past the pages of Anastasia's inner monologues and skilled to the sex scenes, as I don't understand know why people were surprised by the quality of the film. It stayed true to the book, and was better than I expected. Yes it was slow, dialog was trite and didn't see any of Mr Grey's rude bits, but the acting was pretty impressive considering the limited dialog and action that Dornan and Johnson had to work with. I'm in the middle of watching The Fall starring Jamie Dornan as a serial killer, so did struggle to separate him tying up his love interest from his victims.