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Fifty Shades of Grey <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

Universal Pictures<\/b><\/p>\n

Reviewed for Shockya by Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grade: C+<\/b><\/p>\n

Director: Sam Taylor Johnson<\/b><\/p>\n

Screenwriter: Kelly Marcel, from E.L. James\u2019 novel<\/b><\/p>\n

Cast:\u00a0 Dakota Johnson, Jamie Dornan, Eloise Mumford, Luke Grimes, Rita Ora, Victor Rasuk, Max Martini, Jennifer Ehle, Marcia Gay Harden<\/b><\/p>\n

Opens: February 13, 2015<\/b><\/p>\n

One day while walking along Fifth Avenue in New York City with a friend, I stumbled upon the world renowned pair of marble lions that stood in the Beaux Arts building at the entrance to the Public Library. \u201cWhen would the lions roar<\/i>\u201d? I asked. \u201cWhen a virgin passes by\u201d<\/i> my friend replied. After all these were the late 1960s, the \u201cpill\u201d and casual sex were \u201cin\u201d and virginity was definitely \u201cout\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

So how do we explain Anastasia \u201cAna\u201d Steele (Dakota Johnson), a literature student who is about to graduate from Washington State University, but kept her virginity intact? Ana, the central character in Fifty Shades of Grey, <\/i>is unprepared for the basic things in life. When we meet her for the first time she is assigned to substitute for a sick friend and interview Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan) in his ultra-modern Seattle office. Ana not only falls upon entering his office, she is unprepared without a tape recorder or a pen. She is intimidated by this overconfident man, and upon emerging outdoors she lets out an orgasmic moan and looks to the pouring heavens. In other words: Ana is infatuated.<\/strong><\/p>\n

What follows is their bizarre \u201ccourtship\u201d that includes Christian\u2019s emerging as an overly controlling person, with his passion for dominance\/submission and sadism\/masochism. He will even go so far as giving Ana a legal five-page contract to sign, with detailed conditions of what she is to do, eat and where she is to live. Brave Ana takes it all in stride and in the first half hour of this creation she sends Christian an E-Mail of \u201cthanks-but-no-thanks\u201d. But alas she succumbs to this seducer\u2019s power, his helicopter flying skills, and piano playing. In the second half of the film we are introduced to Christian\u2019s \u201cplay-room\u201d, filled with ropes, whips and chains, to which Ana must report upon his command.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cue audience: unintentional laughter during the first half of Fifty Shades of Grey<\/i>, and stare in disbelief at the screen during the second.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dakota Johnson launches a credible performance as Ana, portraying a young student who read too many Jane Austen novels. She is not sexy but proves irresistible to Christian. Jamie Dornan, playing a twenty-six-year old C.E.O., is too \u201cmature\u201d for the role of Christian at thirty-two. His acting does not have the range required for Christian and he is cold, distant and too mechanical even in most passionate scenes.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notable supporting performances are provided by Eloise Mumford as fun loving roommate Katherine, Jennifer Ehle as Carla, Ana\u2019s supportive mother, and Marcia Gay Harden as Grace, Christian\u2019s stiff mother.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Filmed beautifully by Seamus McGarvey Vancouver never looked prettier, with specific scenes shot in Gastown, Bental 5, The Fairmont Hotel and The University of British Columbia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Fifty Shades of Grey<\/i> is scheduled to open during Valentine\u2019s Day weekend, but if you don\u2019t like what you see in 2015 do not despair. Fifty Shades Darker<\/i> is a scheduled sequel for 2016 and perhaps Fifty Shades Freed<\/i> on a later date.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rated R. 110 minutes. \u00a9 Tami Smith, Guest Reviewer<\/strong><\/p>\n

Story Grade: C<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acting Grade: B<\/strong><\/p>\n

Technical Grade: B+<\/strong><\/p>\n

Overall Grade: C+<\/strong><\/p>\n

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