The movie picks up not long after the last one ended as Anastasia Steele (Dakota Johnson) ditched her boyfriend Christian Grey (Jamie Dornan), after his love of spanking became more than she could handle.
He also directed “ Fear,” the Reese Witherspoon-Mark Wahlberg thriller infamous for its climactic roller coaster scene.
The author probably didn’t have that problem with “Darker,” since the screenwriter is her husband, Niall Leonard, and director James Foley is no stranger to tawdry, overly serious love affairs. According to the rumor mill, Taylor-Johnson and James often didn’t see eye to eye. Director Sam Taylor-Johnson and screenwriter Kelly Marcel didn’t return. With the arrival two years later of “Fifty Shades Darker,” the secret ingredients to the original’s success are clear - especially now that they’re gone. This is supposed to be ridiculous and fun, the movie assured the audience, and for the most part it was. The romance novel about an S&M-loving billionaire who falls for a bookworm was replete with cringe-worthy prose, but the adaptation was saved by a good dose of winking. The box-office smash “Fifty Shades of Grey” was a better movie than E.L. Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson in “Fifty Shades Darker.” (Doane Gregory/Universal Pictures) (Doane Gregory/Universal Pictures)
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