Although ticket sales for "Fifty Shades of Grey" are falling in the U.S., the movie opened by earning $410 million. The sadomasochistic love story is still picking up steam in other countries and has even gotten overexcited fans in trouble with the law as a woman watching the film got hauled off by the cops for masturbating during a showing of the Dakota Johnson- and Jamie Dornan-starring flick.

After noticing the woman in the 12th row pleasuring herself before the big screen, moviegoers at a cinema in Sinaloa, Mexico, called the police, and the unmarried 33-year-old got taken away in cuffs, La Verdad reports. T

he woman was trying to enjoy herself two days after the film’s Valentine's Day release.There is a bit of poetic justice involved in a story about a woman trying to get off on fictional bondage and then getting real handcuffs strapped on before being dragged off to jail.

The film, about a student named Anastasia Steele, who hooks up with a billionaire named Christian Grey, who wants her to sign a contract before kinking up her life, has been panned by critics that for the most part have found it too tame or subdued to actually be sexy.

Anthony Lane of the New Yorker cautions the viewer to think of the film “as the ‘Downton Abbey’ of bondage, designed neither to menace nor to offend but purely to cosset the fatigued imagination.”

And Josh Kupecki at the Austin Chronicle says that, “While not entirely stripped of eroticism, the couplings in the film are pretty tame (you’re likely to find much more kink in any given episode of Scandal, truth be told), and the camera tends to pan away like a courteous voyeur before most of les petites morts are achieved.”

But judging by the commotion the movie is causing south of the border, something must be working.

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