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I appreciate the content that Tubi offers for free. It is a streaming service with many quality movies that deserves more attention. As Swim is one of the first movies originally produced by Tubi, I wanted to like this movie. Unfortunately, this movie doesn't even live up to the standards of a Syfy Channel movie. The only positive comments that can be made are that the movie is fast-paced and that shark movies are always a little fun. This movie makes many mistakes that even a B horror movie shouldn't make. The list of problems in this movie include but are not limited to:

-A 55 year old actor pretending to be a 90 year old

-The lead actress keeps her mouth open for almost the entire film

-Very predictable number and order of deaths

-poor CGI and an unintimidating shark

-Painful dialogue (ex. At one point, an actor explains to the audience the purpose of a flare gun)

-Characters are either unlikeable or poorly developed

With the number of shark movies made each year, you can certainly find a better shark movie than this one. But hey, at least this film is better than Shark Exorcist (2015).

This has all the trademarks of The Asylum made movies - bad acting, ridiculous decisions, abnormal physics and bad CGI. So depending on what you are looking for, this could be a fun movie to watch, or one where you spend the entire movie commenting and screaming at the TV. Either way, having some beer close-by seems to be necessary.

The mother looked way too young. The kids look like they're pushing 25.

Come on guys. This is simply a test of someone's dogged endurance to sit through what must be one of the worst productions I've seen in a long time. There are no spoilers as there are no highlights to reveal. The storm scenes, the treading water then in waist deep water scenes, were enough to do me in. We're at 30min in and even my remote is wanting me to turn this off. Tubi, you then give us a reprieve by going to a commercial break. Not often that one is looking forward to a commercial. Gotta go now. Let me know how it ends. Ah, no don't.

This movie is an insult to humans. We're better than this. The directors should have asked for help. I think an actual shark could've made a better moive. What were they thinking?? They could have just recorded a wall, and it would have been a better movie. Watch ONLY to make fun of it.

Well, just when the Sy Fy (hate that abbreviation) channel stopped showing and funding these identical and usually terrible monster movies it seems Tubi will take up that awful baton and beat you in the head with it.

This is a real shame as Tubi is one of the best streaming services out there with a wide diverse collection of movies old and new to watch, so when they started doing their own films I had hopes, all of those dashed by this.

This "movie" is from the same folks who made them for Sy Fy, this time the budget is probably a little lower which may be why Sharknardo director Ferrante is only the writer on this one and they went with Fred Olen Ray impersonator Jared Cohen to direct. You might think I'm using this to insult him but Cohen has actually said he aspires to be Olen Ray, so I guess he's succeeded at failing and doing so as boringly as possible over and over again. This isn't even by the numbers directing as many numbers are missing, the way he shoots scenes is identical from one to the next and key things he should show you he just doesn't. Actors expressions change from shot to shot though they are supposed to happening at the same time, it's just a sloppy careless joyless lifeless thing. Forget about talent there is no skill displayed here and for as many times as Cohen has been making a movie he doesn't seem to know what to do or, even worse, was just getting pay check and rushing off to the nearest bar to try to forget it all.

Most of the blame can be laid on his door as there is never a good angle or performance in the whole thing and some of it barely cuts together, no action scene ever builds any tension or excitement and well, what's left to botch when it doesn't deliver any of that. In fairness the script is bad, kind of a let's take the cheapest scenes from Sharknado and make a whole movie around them, but the performances are just dreadful even given the warmed over leftovers from Sharknado's "serious" or "character" moments.

Ok but how are the CGI sharks? Well there's only one of them and it's better than the worst CGI sharks you've seen, but the kills are ineptly done and there aren't many of them.

Terrible sound job and music but the film doesn't deserve any better.

I think with this movie I'd have to say there are more terrible shark movies than almost any other genre. Sad boring day for tubi fans, I'm sure there is more just like this waiting to darken your life.

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.

Never laughed so much at a horror film in my life!

I wish that I could rate this -1000000

The tiny cartoon shark who changes colour, size and shape?!

The children who look older than the parents?!

A leg being dramatically bitten off and getting left with little tiny bite marks, I've had more blood from a paper cut?!

Trying to kill the shark with a shovel?!

Overall, it's not a horror, a 8 year old could watch this and laugh along.

The longest 2 hours of my life that I'm never getting back... all wasted.

So I am very stoned rite now and I still have NO CLUE how this was ever made. The last 30 mins is definitely a treat!

You don't get much better than this. If you are looking for fake sharks, fake rain or fake acting, this is your movie. Never has a shark attack been more avoidable but then we wouldn't get to experience the masterpiece that is "swim".

A shark slowly making its way up a flooding house to eat its pray. At no point did they just open the door and leave and I am so glad they didn't.

It is an absolute wonder movies like this get made as they actually cost someone money. Bravo all round. I would like to especially thank Jadon (age 9) for the dialogue. It was an amazing first effort for a young boy with the learning difficulties he has had to overcome.

What was in the package??

Why can't the mom keep her mouth closed??

The acting and CGI is actually pretty funny, so It had some entertainment value from that. There is a fine line where something is SO corny that you think it was done on purpose, I actually think they gave a solid effort to making this which makes it all the more hilarious to me. Unfortunately the comical moments are hardly worth it though, and I found myself bored by the end and couldn't finish the last 15-20 minutes or so.

... 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.

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.

The mother's acting was worst than the CGI shark, she whispered 75% of the time, the other bad acting was worst than a SYFY channel movie. Grandpa was cool... Have you ever watched a horror movie and root for the villain? Here's your chance.

A family travel to a dream (nightmare) holiday shack, and get stalked by a psychotic shark.

If you're having a couple of large vodkas, you may just find this amusing enough, you know it's doing to be shocking, it's genuinely worse than that, it's terrible.

The shark itself is an amusing chap, and those CGI special effects belong in the late 1990's.

It is one of those that's so awful, that in a cringey way you will want to watch it, for a morbid curiosity.

Some rudimentary basics are a little confused here, including the ages of the main characters, the mother is to young, and the doddery old father is hilarious, a shame they didn't give him an ear trumpet and a paisley blanket.

When the daughter is screaming our the word shark, nobody else is remotely bothered, the mother is more concerned with her parcel, it's hilarious.

Some of the acting, it's what I can only describe as porn movie acting, personified beautifully by the dishy Mr Randolph, all he needed was a boiler suit.

Jaws fans, do not watch it, you'll weep.

2/10.

You can tell from the first 5 minutes it's going to be a sht movie, but in-law picked it so I'm forced to watch. The shark is done in terrible cgi. The acting is worse than a high school play. Everything is a joke. It's a wonder how this thing was ever made.

Terrible movie, acting is horrifying this is truly a horror movie. The CGI is even worse, somehow it made me want the sharks to eat everyone. Everyone who worked on this film should get fired and never work on anything again. All the actors need to go back to acting school, and do something better. The logic is terrible, and makes you wonder if an elementary schooler wrote this, even a middle schooler has better logic than this. My mood has gone down, I've aged faster, and I've never wanted to punch a TV harder in my life. Yet, this trash was entertaining enough, it made me laugh harder than ever. If you want to laugh, watch this movie,

I wish I could rate it 0. Bad acting, awful script, just the worst FX, bad everything. The terrible continuity started with 1st attack the man is standing waist deep in the water but suddenly when shark comes he's swimming in like 20 feet of water.. what the.

I always wondered what happened to that guy from Blossom..

THIS MOVIE IS HORRIBLE. THE ACTING IS EMBARRASSING. SHARKNADO DESERVES AN ACADEMY AWARD NEXT TO THIS MOVIE. WATCH IT FOR THE LAUGHS.