Darker Shades of Elise

This is one of those films where you don't know whether to laugh or cry. There might have been a neat, if unoriginal, film inside - unhappily married woman starts affair, is blackmailed and there's a plot twist at the end; but everything is so badly done that the end result is very poor indeed.

The script is clunky and unbelievable; the London work environment which the plot revolves around is portrayed very unrealistically; some of the acting is very poor. The sex scenes are mechanistic rather than erotic, and not nearly as revealing as the director imagines; there is hardly a drop of sweat. Then towards the end, when events turn violent, the violence is so badly filmed that it appears ridiculous. Throughout, the score makes things worse.

This film went straight to DVD/streaming - never a good sign. Best watched with a lot of drinks and crisps - if at all.

Bad camera work, acting, cheesy, not erotic. Worst film I have seen for years.

Better than the reviews and better than 50 shades darker but what I must object to is the lack of full frontal nudity from the lead we saw her nipples fleetingly compared to a proper nude sex scene from a minor cast member why do the film if you are not willing to go all in,this applies to both the script and the actors.

Extremely low budget film, terrible acting with a ridiculous and extremely uncomfortable and disgusting storyline.

What trash has bleached my eyes? The acting is horrendous. I mean, what a pile of nonsense. People clearly get off making these sorts of films, and just think its a whizzy joke. No doubt that some will be amused, but that is just a faze honey - you'll be bored by this one. The photography, the acting, the dialogue... its all just trashy and lacks in any sense of the word 'art'.