Swim

Swim

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A fun romp similar to other sharky things, but the amount of damage able to be inflicted by a 3 metre (10 foot) shark needs a bit of research. Swim speed, bite radius blah blah blah. Always fun though.

Dumb story.....bad special effects.....but it was the acting that really sunk this movie(the Mom in particular....she literally has the same "shocked"expression on her face the entire movie!!)I gave it 3 stars for the effort,probably more than it deserves....

Something was off with the sound tho and the CGI shark wasn't the best but it was alright.

This movie was so awful that I couldn't look away. The acting, "special effects", storyline and writing was on a level of atrocious that I have never seen in film before. I erupted in laughter at many of the attack scenes and found myself shaking my head in frustration at the reasoning of the characters. This movie is now on my list for my Bad Horror Movie Night binges. The entire thing looks like it was made on a budget of $10. It is the worst thing I've ever seen. I'm giving it 3 stars because I'm so amazed at how terrible it was, it seems more like a shark horror parody than anything else.

... to find out what in this movie is not beyond ridiculous or plain stupid, from the script to "acting" to the music to camera work... everything. The stakes are high. It's a total wonder that such a putrid garbage can actually be shot, produced and sold as a movie. Makes one logically questions whether the whole thing is not just a cover up for some other lousy sharky business.

"Swim" is the generically titled official debut of The Asylum on the streaming app TUBI. Many of the studio's films are already there, and this is the first time TUBI paid to have its own film produced. Fitting choice too. The Asylum produces many creature features and sharks are as popular as ever. Jared Cohn directs and his experience, increased budget and time allotment make "The Swim" one of the better films the studio has produced recently. I would go so far as to say go out of your way to watch it if you are a shark movie fan. The plot recalls "Crawl" with a shark getting into the house rather than an alligator. The house in question is a beach house in CA a family is renting from a scumbag. Scumbag won't repair leaky pipes and is properly eaten. Everyone you expect to be attacked is. Those who die are easy to predict though not all victims do. The pleasure in the film is that the studio finally has the money to make the special effects look at least as good as "Deep Blue Sea" did twenty-one years ago. Cohn drenches his movie in constant rain, a modern variation of the smoke effect often seen in older films. Here it's tied in with the plot. Rising flood water allows a shark to enter the basement, conveniently flooded due to leaky pipes. The actors are all competent. The film oddly portrays "grandpa" as a retired doctor barely 60 years old. I found it hard to believe that he would have a grandchild entering college. He must have found time for his family and why wouldn't he? The main female actors are constantly in bikinis. The main guy always wears a tight swimsuit too. Objectively, "Swim" isn't a good film. It is the among the best of a B grade studio whose fans will enjoy it immensely.

What was in the package?? Why can't the mom keep her mouth closed??

This was both comedy, and tragedy. The comedy was the writing. Lines like "Why is there a shark in the house"? The acting wasn't terrible...they all looked sufficiently terrified. The tragedy was the script and the dialogue. They ruined the film. Both totally unbelievable. If they had confined the flood to the bottom floor, they MIGHT have had some kind of credibility. But there WAS a silver lining. Addison Bowman's ass.