Swim

CinemaSerf

2023-11-05

⭐ 4

Joey Lawrence takes top billing, but he really only features towards the end of this frankly shocking nonsense. He is having to drive from San Francisco to join his family at their annual seaside home because it's raining and his flight has been grounded. Meantime, his family arrive only to be warned that that self same storm is heading their way and that they had best skedaddle from their already leaky home. The warning? Well that's water off a duck's back, and shortly thereafter they are (deservedly) being besieged in the house by a hungry shark. As the water rises, the shark gets ever close…

Lately I've been watching so much random stuff on Tubi, and *Swim* is a perfect example of what happens when you just keep scrolling and eventually say, "Sure, why not?" Well, this is why not. The premise is basically *Jaws* in a flooded house, which sounds ridiculous enough that it could have been a lot of fun. Unfortunately, *Swim* doesn't lean into the absurdity nearly enough. Instead, it's mostly people making questionable decisions, delivering clunky dialogue, and reacting to a shark that never manages to be particularly scary. The effects are rough, the characters aren't interes…