Elysium movie Fifty Shades of Grey movie poster

So it's no surprise these two flat placeholder characters have almost no chemistry together. That's pretty much summarizes their 'character traits.' She dresses like a librarian and he dresses like Tony Stark. She drives a classic VW bug and likes to read books - he likes to fly and is very powerful. And they are incredibly, surprisingly boring.

To call these characters flat is an insult to two-dimensional beings. Any character history is forgotten as quickly as it is lazily established. but none of their personal history matters at all. The movie makes a sad attempt at fleshing out their back stories - Grey's troubled mother died when he was a child and her parents are divorced. The only thing important, on a character level, about the protagonist is that she is a virgin, while the other thin character barely has much more character development, aside from him being a possessive stalker. If the more infamous facets of this movie were removed, all that would remain is a poorly directed, awkward and overall confusing awkward 'romance' between two characters - with zero chemistry - in a movie that fails to present anything resembling a narrative.įirst, and foremost, this is a 'story' told about two non-characters. ( Watch the trailer)įor a moment, forget the titillating and extreme aspects of 'Fifty Shades' (aka, the only notable aspects of the infamous source material). In short: Intimidating young industry mogul Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) attempts to lure recent college grad Anastasia Steele ( Dakota Johnson) into his world of BDSM. on any level? Unfortunately ' Fifty Shades of Grey' (now in theaters) lacks the edge of so many other films in the realm of sexual exploration.

Shouldn't a movie whose core subject matter is the racy, brow-raising world of BDSM be more.

Elysium movie Fifty Shades of Grey movie poster