Silly empty fun with interesting editing and delicious hunky Jesse Bradford.
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09/08/02
Swimfan (2002)
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Reviews Counted:89
Fresh:13
Rotten:76
Average Rating:3.9/10
Consensus: A Fatal Attraction rip-off, Swimfan is a predictable, mediocre thriller.
Runtime: 85 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: This teen psychodrama directed by John Polson plays like a Generation Y version of FATAL ATTRACTION. Ben Cronin (Jesse Bradford) is a high school swimmer with an incredibly promising future. On the... [More]
Starring: Jesse Bradford, Shiri Appleby, Erika Christensen, Dan Hedaya
Director: John Polson
Reviews for Swimfan
Hey, it's "Fatal Attraction Lite."
09/08/02
It is no worse than the average of the genre, but it is one of the most unremarkable, garden-variety installments I've seen.
09/07/02
A technically well-made suspenser...but its abrupt drop in IQ points as it races to the finish line proves simply too discouraging to let slide.
09/07/02
Dialogue so deadening and repetitive that it takes on the cadence of MAD Magazine set to a Gregorian chant.
09/06/02
SWIMFAN could have been a good movie if the screenwriters had put some psychological weight into it.
09/06/02
It would be great to see this turd squashed under a truck, preferably a semi.
09/06/02
Nothing comes as a surprise, and viewers will be pondering how certain things managed to occur -- especially involving the villain's apparent super-human strength.
09/06/02
The first Fatal Attraction was vile enough. Do we really need the Tiger Beat version?
09/06/02
Swimfan will not be mistaken for War & Peace on the big screen, but it is certainly head and shoulders above everything else out there that alleges to be for teenagers.
09/06/02
If swimfan does catch on, it may be because teens are looking for something to make them laugh.
09/06/02
It's a cheap thriller without the cheap thrills.
09/06/02
Without delivering chills or suspense, it reiterates the old message that cheating is fine, unless you happen to choose a psycho.
09/06/02
Some may call it... a guilty pleasure!!
09/06/02
The only excitement comes when the credits finally roll and you get to leave the theater.
09/06/02
Made for teens and reviewed as such, this is recommended only for those under 20 years of age...and then only as a very mild rental.
09/06/02
There's nothing redeeming about this movie - it should be called Drowning in the Cinematic Cesspool.
09/06/02
Christensen...is such a fun, wicked, spiteful villainess that she keeps the flick afloat all by herself.
09/06/02
essentially "Fatal Attraction" remade for viewers who were in diapers when the original was released in 1987. ...this story gets sillier, not scarier, as it goes along...
09/06/02
On the surface, the film is played straight, with sustained tension and effective frights. But the director has done his research, and fills every scene with a subversive humor that's 100% pure imitation Hitchcock.
09/06/02
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