'Fifty Shades Freed' Is Out Of Tricks As It Ties Up Loose Ends

"Less plot, more ladders."

That's a philosophy espoused by a college friend of mine with a fondness for Jackie Chan movies. Chan is known for incredibly inventive action sequences in which he fights using whatever is handy — including, in First Strike, a ladder. But what my friend does not want from Jackie Chan movies is a lot of time unwinding a boring, byzantine plot. Less plot, he would demand. More ladders.

And this, for a couple of reasons, is what I found myself thinking about at a screening of Directed by James Foley from the E.L. James books, it's the third and final (?) installment in the story