With its moment in the zeitgeist well and truly long gone, this trilogy closer - filmed back-to-back with the second part - proves to be little more than an barely efficient closer to this silly series. The problems remain: very little plot, lacklustre dialogue and disengaging performances, attractive gloss but relentlessly flat in style, and little in the way of emotion. As female fantasy, it is remarkably patronising, right through to the final frames, but judging by audience reaction, it seemed to have served its purpose. The idea of filming the follow-up novels, telling the whole saga again through Christian's point of view, should be squashed immediately, but it is likely that diminishing interest and box-office will do that job effectively enough.
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