Fifty Shades of Grey

Let’s cut to the chase: If you are going into Fifty Shades of Grey expecting a smörgåsbord of steamy BDSM sex scenes, you best be lowering your expectations. While not entirely stripped of eroticism, the couplings here are pretty tame – leaving only the usual wish-fulfillment fairy tale of a naive girl and her Prince Charming that's been told a million times before. Based on an obscure novel by E L James, Fifty Shades is the story of Anastasia Steele (Johnson) – a clumsy plain Jane, and, no big deal, a virgin – who is interviewing millionaire Christian Grey (Dornan) for her college newspaper when a spark alights ... and the flogging commences. It's a bondage movie without much perversion, a love story without much passion, and ultimately, a film burdened with expectations it could never fulfill that never quite hits as hard as you want it to.