Fifty Shades Darker (2017)
Genre: Romance / Drama
Duration: 118 minuten
Alternative title: 50 Shades Darker
Country:
United States
Directed by: James Foley
Stars: Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan and Eric Johnson
IMDb score:
4,6 (117.104)
Releasedate: 8 February 2017
Fifty Shades Darker plot
"Every fairy tale has a dark side."
When Christian Gray (Jamie Dornan) tries to persuade Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) to come back into his life, she demands a different settlement before giving him another chance. As the pair build their mutual trust, dark figures from Christian's past emerge, determined to cruelly disrupt their dream of a future together.
Actors and actresses
Anastasia Steele
Christian Grey
Jack Hyde
Kate Kavanagh
Leila Williams
Mia Grey
Elliot Grey
José Rodriguez
Jason Taylor
Jerry Roach
Reviews & comments
mrklm
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- 10509 messages
- 9446 votes
What a horror this is. There is still no chemistry between the two protagonists and that is mainly because Jamie Dornan has just 0.0 charisma. Initially, Anastasia sees a newfound relationship with the bastard, blunt, manipulative, arrogant jerk of a James Gray. But as soon as Gray says [and I quote], "My mother was on crack and died when I was four. You can figure out the rest of the story..." she decides to go to bed with him again. A woman who is so easily fooled deserves all the misery she gets, but I don't wish this syrupy, completely idiotic and terribly boring display on anyone. Eric Johnson [as Anastacia's boss] and actually Kim Basinger are the only ones who still bring a little bit of life to the brewery, but unfortunately you are often confronted with a lot of gasping sex scenes, with gag-inducing pop stuff.
No, no and again no.
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tbouwh
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- 5768 messages
- 5271 votes
A few things go wrong here:
- The script could thus be used for an unexpurgated GTST special
- I've never seen a helicopter crash so fast. Probably the makers thought they could avoid people seeing that things didn't look too good through a quick scene.
- Every sex scene is accompanied by a matching pop song
- That nervous talk about sex toys and erotic tension (particularly among women, without directly trying to stereotype) makes no sense; I saw La Vie d'Adèle (2013) last week, and compared to that this is child's play (what do you want with an up-and-down top Hollywood product).
- Kim Basinger's face creates more tension than all the sex scenes put together (too bad, that was once miss LA Confidential (1997))
- Anastasia's constant mood swings are truly terrifying, then I almost understand the dominant sadist Gray even better. While purely chasing his macabre fantasies, Steele allows himself to be manipulated time and again. The man only has to sigh or they are already in the shower together.
- Negligible is the thriller element, including open ending.
- Leentjebuur Part I: The Titanic Scene
- Leentjebuur Part II: James has seen The Graduate (1967)
- Worrying that a lot of teenage girls come to show their giggles in these kind of movies
Camera work is excellent by the way. Visually and spherically here and there also solid. No minimum score.
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rep_robert
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- 27454 messages
- 3993 votes
Little different and little better than part 1.
The problem is simply the tone of the film. It remains a film that wants to sell sex/eroticism and in between a story has to be told.
Gray is the biggest douchebag there is and Anastasia hops after it like a hopping pussy. The relationship they have is purely sexual, because they don't have any really interesting things to tell each other. This has got to be the most incredible romance ever. What she sees in him is a complete mystery to me after 2 films. In that respect, 50 Shades Darker does fit with the superficial Tinder generation that we are dealing with in 2017, in which people only judge each other by a superficial meat inspection and any form of content seems to be absent.
The film also feels very fragmented. Each scene seems almost intended to lead to an erotic finale. 50 Shades Darker is therefore also constructed in this way: relationship perils, sex, relationship perils, sex, relationship perils, sex, relationship perils, sex, etc. The relationship perils and the sex are not really exciting.
Oh yes, some kind of tension has to be created with a crazy ex-slave, a horny girlfriend of Mama Gray and a helicopter crash. But dealing with tension is something this director cannot do at all. Each of these subplots ends in a hilariously bad anti-climax. Only Anastasia's horny boss gets a role in the sequel (given the trailer). Well, I'm already on the edge of my seat...
The film is and does exactly what it pretends to be. It's useless shit to turn on horny teenage girls and housewives. As a man you have the pleasure of looking at Dakota Johnson, but you can't get much more out of this.
1,5*
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