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Neither as good or as bad as so many commentators seem to think. It has high production values. The direction is unobtrusive. I haven't read the novels, so cannot really comment on the source material. Dakota Johnson hit the corruptible ingenue character pretty well, and looks smashing while doing so. Jamie Dornan, though... In my comments on the first movie, I compared his depth of emotion to a terminator. In this one, he at least attempts some emotional scenes. He doesn't do them very well, but he tries. Supporting cast, especially Marcia Gay Harden, were pretty good, with the exception of Kim Basinger. There is really no reason to see this, except as a continuation of the first movie. It could never stand alone.

The predictable plotting and the boring dialogues makes this sequel automatically uninteresting. "Fifty Shades Darker" is worst than the first movie because the characters have learned nothing and repeat the exact same unhealthy relationship. The two beautiful protagonists do their bests to treating sex like a pleasurable activity but is not enough and the result is not good. The thriller narrative, involving persons from Grey's strange past, exposes the shallowness of the story. What made the first unit of this trilogy so much better than the current version is that everything was then new. But now that we are familiar with the equipment in Christian's lavish penthouse, the novelty is gone and the boredom is here.

I sat through the last half of 50 shades darker today because my sister was using my Macbook to watch it... Let me sum it up for you:

Him: "I'm not good with people because I'm mysterious."

Her: "I like mysterious, but I'm scared cause I'm fragile."

Him: "Don't be afraid, I'm the one who is afraid... of hurting you."

*Have Some Sex*

Her: "You're so thoughtful, maybe I misjudged you. Now I want to be hurt... just not emotionally."

Him: "I always hurt people, but I would never hurt you... unless you wanted me to."

Her: "Ouch, you hurt me. Now my feelings are hurt and I'm sad and my whole life hurts."

Him: "I'm sorry if I hurt you. I'll try harder, but I don't think I'll ever change.'

Her: "I'm gonna pretend like I didn't hear that, but please don't hurt me again. I trust you to change for me- projects are fun."

Him: "Put these things in your ass."

Her: "No." Him: "Okay, I'm not good with people because I'm mysterious."

*Have Some Sex Again*

Aaaand Credits

This movie is so awful, that it is hard to find words to describe it. I really can't imagine why there are so many people that are willing to go and see in in the cinemas. This movie is not bad, because of the idea for an affair between a rich businessman and a normal girl. It is bad because the dialogues are flat, the characters are terrible and without any depth, there is no actual acting in it, and for the final the story is badly written.

It is really sad, that such a badly made movies are so popular. They destroy the idea for good movie with acting, script and everything else. And if you expect to see at least a lot of erotic in it, you may fell a bit disappointed at the end. The movie is far from that it promises to its viewers.

While not having particularly high expectations, it must be said, I did go into this film with an open mind. However only a few minutes in and I already felt the urge to leave and fill my brain with something less awful and mind rotting.

It's not just the non-existent plot and hammy acting that let this film down, although they were major factors, the chemistry between the two leads was like watching two planks of wood getting together. None of what I saw made me believe he was an irresistible sex god with a dark side. And with Ana, let's just say biting ones lip every time something is suggested gets a bit old.

Furthermore, without wanting to spoil, is her IQ supposed to be about 50? I have to ask because she pretty much agrees to everything he says, and not in a dom/sub kind of way, more just because she doesn't seem to have the mental ability to argue. You have to wonder how she's employed in the first place.

I've seen some absolutely dire films but I can honestly say this is the worst film I've ever seen.

Storyline: 0/10 I don't really see any up or down in the story-line. It's only sex and sex and nonsense stuff. I meant "stuff" because there's nothing to describe. Honestly, people come to watch the movie because of the sex scene only, and it is even worse than the 1st part. Lesson: if you're rich, you get everything, even a sex slave. That is literally everything from the movie. I rarely say a movie is bad, but this movie is so bad that I even hate it. I regret my $10 and 120minutes watching a bunch of BS like this.

You know what you're going to get when you watch this so why all the low ratings? It was never going to win an Oscar. It's a decent watch and I quite like watching how their relationship develops over the three films. It's easy watching and whilst I agree he can be a bit wooden at times, I think that's the point of his character. He's not comfortable with emotion! I think it's an easy watching love story and shows how two people develop and compromise when they love each other. Yes, it will never win awards but it is enjoyable. And for the record, I never read the books until years after they came out. I'm not a die hard fan of them at all as found them quite repetitive, but I did enjoy the films.

Stars Minnesota Johnson as the submissive girlfriend and Jamie Doorknob, as the dominant, controlling boyfriend. This is soft-core porn for girls and I noticed that the screening I attended was almost entirely a female audience. Though be aware that the erotic scenes are not the kind of sex girls want to see or probably enjoy.

I didn't care about the lead actors, who had very little chemistry in between the sex scenes and even those were pretty dull, the elevator scene is a good example of what I mean.

The plot is poor, the drama is rubbish, the acting is wooden, and the dialogue is laughable rubbish. The film is unintentionally funny when supposed to be serious, and boring when supposed to be sexy. Although sexier than the original film (my wife tells me) not as graphically sexy as the book. I sat through the pain of this and at the end felt glad I wasn't Christian Grey, though being a billionaire is always very appealing.

So in summary, this is a rubbish sequel to the original garbage but will do very well because it's been released over the limited window coinciding with the Valentine's period.

I like the dominance they had on each other. She on his vulnerability. He on her sexuality Although many "feminist" will say he is exploiting her... But I see that is open for experience and experiment and he wants to surrender to her. Rare combination for relationship. But a dreamy one

Never read the books and didn't see the first one, but really wanted to see a movie this weekend and this looked like the best bet. My wife and I sat in the last row, cuddled, giggled, and enjoyed this movie immensely. I was even a bit teary-eyed in two of the scenes. Thought it would run for another 20-25 minutes when it ended, but felt the ending was perfect anyway, and they set up the 3rd movie nicely. I'd give it 7.5 out of ten if that were allowed...for what it is, a soft core porn type of suspense movie, it deserves that rating. Not 4.5. Sorry, IMDb users. I'm trusting you less and less all the time...and rotten tomatoes too. 8%. Really? What were movie did they think they were going to see???

This movie has horrible acting and it's basically nothing but a cheesy cringey chic flick that makes all the single girls that fantasies about having a relationship that is abusive but also stand up for women's rights panties wet. And for the dudes that go watch this..there are so many porn sites that a free and you don't have to sit through hours of bad dialogue for a 15 min soft porn scene. The only reason they keep making these films is because idiots keep buying tickets to go watch this movie. Horrible ratings and people still stand by and defend it. Stop giving a movie high ratings because it increases your hormone levels you horny animals lol

If you are a basic looking chick looking a movie about a rich, hot dude dating a plain chick, then this the movie for you.It doesn't matter whether he is a psychopath, controlling, possessive, dating you because you remind him of his dead mother, and gets off on abusing you. As long as he is rich and good looking, then it's worth it to you and you will enjoy this movie. This movie is designed for you. There is nothing special or interesting about these characters or the one dimensional background cast. You're watching them date for an hour and a half with an vanilla sex scene for every ten to fifteen minutes of talking. There is no conflict or problems in this movie. All the scenes of potential conflicts of the trailer are resolved within minutes after they happen. Anastasia has no backbone in this movie. She gripes and complains about not doing what he wants, then go ahead and do whatever he wants anyway.So if you want to see a movie about Anastasia and Christian date for two hours and have sex, then this is the movie for you.Pros: I liked the first movie because it was so bad it was funny and the soundtrack was good. This movie is literally the two of them getting back together and dating and the soundtrack was okay.

Frankly, do you call this a movie or soft porn that promotes male domination and humiliates women? Wasted my money and time by watching this movie just because some of my friends wanted to watch it badly. This movie just pollutes the minds of our younger generation. Everything from dialogues, sex scenes and acting is poor. The music was a bit good for which I gave one star. Honestly we women are not like this. We also like to have good, clean and natural relationships in our life. We don't always want to get wet and indulge in a submissive relationship. Fifty shades of grey started it and now this title made it worst further. Please come up with some good story-line. Thumbs down. It only frustrated me and nothing else.

Wow what a disappointment !! I personally loved the books ,i saw the back story behind all the sex of a broken man finding and learning to love really beautiful. The movie , well there are so many things wrong with it starting with the cinematography ,it's just all too perfect Hollywood and not enough rawness and realness to it and i hate it .Next is the cast i mean i love Jamie Dornan and Dakota is OK but they were so not right for this movie!No chemistry or heat between them and very wooden analytical acting.Jamie Dornan in The Fall was awesome by the way i am not a hater.Other cast also was wrong from Elana to Mia and so on.The movie also seems very rushed ,I know it is an adaptation of the book but not done smoothly in my opinion , It makes me really sad as these movies could have been great if only they had gotten it right ,Take a page out of "Nick Cassavetes" book because he directed The Notebook perfectly.

My God, Where to begin? this movie was awful in so many ways that make a list would be such a waste of time. Anyway, I can mention the most prominent and substantial to me, starting by the most elementary piece which is the idea behind the whole story, in other words the subtext or message that the film delivers. This is no other thing but a teenager wet dream, founded on the most shameless shallowness and superficiality: Is the story of a naive young girl obsessed with the actual prototype of perfect spouse in every aspect important for the society, millionaire, handsome, fit, hard-sex addict, possessive and tough guy, so tough that he even resists an helicopter crash to come back without a scratch; so basically what the movie tries to unfold it's an attempt to tell a story where this girl keeps striving to catch this guy and engage him into a "serious relationship" without all of his flaws and addictions, in this process all of his evil ex's and spooky characters of his past will try to stop her in such predictable manners that you will have to throw some popcorn to others in theater to get amused if possible.

This links to the second aspect to bring up: The Script. This script is so dull and predictable that you would regret buying your ticket in the first 15 min, it's so dummy and felts so unreal that in some point gets laughable, the characters and dialogues are so shallow and the plot twists are far more predictable than fast and furious or any bad horror movie. Linked to that the actors don't help too much, it could be enough with that script but no, the director and producers want you to suffer in every possible way, they throw you a complete platter of mediocrity performances, overacted and fictitious, filled with nonsensical dialogues and cheap jokes.

In the technical aspect there's no much to say, it's another big studio fail, a nearly invisible treatment in the visual camp, mediocre photography, sound mixing and editing which is refilled with pop music to solve the problem.

In conclusion, 50 Shades Darker it's the perfect opportunity to get your daughter most desired obsessions emerged, or even your girlfriend can connect to the cheap-fake fairy tale of sex and passion this movie delivers.

Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible. AVOID AT ALL COSTS!! This is the worse film I've ever seen, the original is the second worse. It's a 2 hour bore fest where nothing happens. This film is full of random sex scenes with no reason of being there. This could only appeal to women who want to see something they would find arousing. The plot can be summarized in a few line, which i won't do to make this spoiler free. If you have any appreciation for films avoid! Do not support this disgusting attempt to be an entertaining piece of fiction!

One of the worst movies I've seen in years. Terrible acting, no plot and pointless sex scenes.

Everyone likes to dump on this movie. Many of the references are from the first. I think people forget the dynamic. The movie is supposed to be about somebody very damaged and somebody not so damaged falling in love. Not a difficult concept. Yes, its kinda weird. Yes, I do wish that the script was 1000 times better. All in all, I've seen Adam Sandler movies that were much worse than this movie. I think the script for The Last Airbender was worse than this. I thought that this movie was actually a little refreshing after the last. Though, the last movie seemed to have a better script.

This movie is so bad I can't begin to argument it. And I will not.. The dream of every woman who wants to tame a rich handsome troubled monster-man. It's masturbatory aid for reality- disconected teenage girls, like Twilight, but infinitely much more borig. I challenge you to find a bigger waste of your time than watching this senseless movie

I feel like people giving this movie really bad reviews are either one, jealous of the attention the movie is getting or two don't like the sex scenes... when that's the whole point of the books and movies lol yeah there's some parts that are kinda cringe but overall it's a good concept and interesting story.

This is a sequel to "Fifty Shades of Grey". You have to see the first film which introduces the characters and situations to get the second film. The first film ended with Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) leaving Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan)because he had control issues and was heavily into S&M. This movie picks up months later. She's trying to move on but he still loves her and wants her. She decides to give him a second chance but has to deal with two of his exes--one wants her dead and the other (Kim Basinger) says she can never have him.

I liked the first movie and I liked this too. The acting is better than the first. I always though Dornan was lousy in the first but he's better her. Johnson was great. Marcia Gay Harden is great in a supporting role. Even Basinger was good! As for sex and nudity--there are sex scenes and they're tasteful but explicit. And (naturally) Johnson shows more skin than Dornan. Also every single romantic cliché in existence is worked into the movie. I'm not complaining about that but it doesn't always work. My audience laughed at scenes that were supposed to be dramatic. It's also too long (2 hours). Still I enjoyed it. Recommended.