But it’s hilarious how quickly and easily these little snags are smoothed over and forgotten. And Christian’s helicopter crashes for no reason whatsoever.
Ana also has some difficulties at her groovy new office job (thus making you wish you were watching Johnson’s mother, Melanie Griffith, in Working Girl). The woman who taught Christian everything he knows about bondage appears, too, although because she is played by Kim Basinger, she makes you wish you were watching 9 1/2 Weeks instead. One of Christian’s exes (Bella Heathcote) keeps popping up and looking glum. To be fair, there are a few speed bumps on the course of true love. But no – it turns out that Christian’s parents are throwing a Venetian-themed charity ball. The posters show the lovers wearing masks, which might suggest some sort of illicit swingers’ club, as in Eyes Wide Shut. Johnson and Dornan sportingly get their tops off on a regular basis, but the reformed Christian doesn’t persuade Ana to do anything that would be too outré for a romantic comedy. It would be over in half that time if it weren’t for the regular-as-clockwork sex scenes and some of the most distractingly blatant product placement ever seen outside of a Bond movie.Īnd don’t get too excited about those sex scenes. That’s the whole film.ĭespite drifting along for almost two hours, 50 Shades Darker is about nothing except Christian being nice and Ana being pleased about it. He is keen on whips and chains because he had a rough childhood, he explains, but now he is willing to put all that behind him.
At the start of Fifty Shades Darker, Ana is at the opening of her friend’s photography show in Seattle (creepily, this so-called friend didn’t tell her that several of those photographs would be poster-sized close-ups of her) when Christian walks in and promises her that from now on he won’t do anything in or out of the bedroom that upsets her. And yet – spoiler alert – they save it in no time.
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