"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.
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.