Review of Fifty Shades Darker (2017) by Brandon W — 14 Feb 2017

James Foley's Fifty Shades Darker may be a little darker, but still a bland grey sums it up.

For nearly 2 hours, the film delivers stuff, then sex, more stuff, then more sex, etc. The story is slow and tiresome, leaving very little to show other than the aforementioned sex scenes.

The highlight is obviously the erotic segments, which gives this film its R-rating. There are a good share of them, but nothing that pushes to an NC-17 rating, which is where this picture may begin to shine, just a little.

Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan are definitely easy on the eyes, but their performances don't help this picture in anyway. The characters may be written this way, and if so, it doesn't work on screen as it would in a book.

Fifty Shades Darker does have a kinkiness to it; just not enough to strip down and stand out.