James' novel performed by her screenwriter husband Niall Leonard takes an already tepid story and essentially pours ice water on the proceedings. There's really no getting around that notion if you break the film down. The term 'critic-proof' was practically invented for a film like Fifty Shades of Grey and it completely defines the core of Fifty Shades Darker. who is determined to know why she couldn't win the beast's heart, and Elena Lincoln (Kim Basinger), the woman who taught Christian everything he knows, isn't ready or willing to let her prized pupil actually fall in love. Anastasia is stalked by former 'sub' Leila (Bella Heathcote).

Just when Anastasia and Christian appear to have their romance on a healthy, if still slightly kinky track, Christian's dark history rears its ugly head.

As a self-professed changed man, Christian is ready and willing to do anything and everything it takes to win back Anastasia and prove his true love for her - even if that means a life without rules. Her life is on her own track, but it isn't before long that Christian returns to the scene. She's a free and independent woman working as an editor's assistant to Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson). Fifty Shades Darker may be terribly written, stiffly acted, and feature some of the most constipated direction for a film of this sort - but all of those things combine to create a final product that is howlingly entertaining - for all of the wrong reasons.Īfter things got out of hand, Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) is no longer a 'sub' for the domineering Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan). James' Fifty Shades novels and subsequent film adaptations are - for lack of a better term - cultural phenomena. You can watch with bemusement as the creative team of the first film completely abandons working on the second with the snide hope that the second film will be so terrible that people will somehow wake up from their self-imposed fog. You may stare in complete and total dumbfounded bewilderment that a movie could be a massive success with a strong following allowing for sequels to be made. Sometimes it's okay to admit that you love to hate a movie.

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