Fifty Shades Freed Review: 3 Ups & 7 Downs

6. The Ridiculous Audi Product Placement

Fifty Shades Freed Audi
Universal

You may as well call this movie Audi presents: Fifty Shades Freed considering how prevalent and infuriatingly blatant the car company's presence is throughout the film.

Pretty much any time Christian or Ana sets foot in a car, director James Foley shoots the car, always an Audi, so sleekly that it's basically indistinguishable from a car commercial.

At every possible opportunity, the camera pulls in close on the Audi hood ornament, just to hammer the point home. It gets ridiculous fast.

Elsewhere, Dodge and Ford Durangos are name-dropped numerous times, and there's also a peculiar sequence where the villainous Jack Hyde (Eric Johnson) talks about a phone's incredible 20 megapixel camera...even though the camera's brand is never visible on screen. Bizarre.

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