Final Fifty Shades film lashed by the critics with atrocious reviews despite studio's attempt to shield it

The latest Fifty Shades movie has been slammed by critics despite desperate attempts by studio executives to stop them from attending screenings.

Review screenings of Fifty Shades Freed, which is released in the UK tomorrow, have been limited to those journalists who flew out to Paris for the European premiere, the Daily Mail reports.

Unusually, the movie was not given a premiere in UK, despite the British roots of series author E. L. James, and no previews were arranged for British critics.

The tactics failed to stop critics from panning the film, however, as viewers complained of cringeworthy dialogue and “dull” chemistry between its two stars. 

The Hollywood Reporter wrote: “Closing the book on what's arguably one of the worst film franchises in recent memory, Fifty Shades Freed doesn't quite end with the bang one would hope for.

The magazine's critic Jordan Mintzer also called its stars Jamie Dornan and Dakota Fanning “one of the duller couples to ever grace the screen”.

The Herald Sun in Australia added: “The whole experience has been like a bad Tinder date that lasted three years.”

On film ratings website Rotten Tomatoes, the film scored just 6 out of 100, making it among the worst-ranking films of the year so far.

A review by Stuff read: “Add it all up, and Fifty Shades Freed was pretty much doomed to be exactly the highly glossed, deeply tedious and incontrovertibly lousy pile of old rubbish that it is.”