«Fifty Shades Darker» is melodramatic garbage of the highest degree that
forces decent actors like Dakota Johnson and Jamie Dornan (who look as interested as their contracts obligate them to be) to deliver cringeworthy, soap opera - quality dialogue.
Director Amat Escalante uses artful long takes, nonprofessional
actors, and moments of abject miserableness — in one terrible - to - watch scene, a character has his genitals lit on fire — to sketch the story of a
decent Mexican family churned up by their country's corrupt police
force.