Last Swim

I usually hate films like this. You know the type. Low budget, feely, sensitive, girly type movies focussing on young, pretentious, dumb adults who think they know it all but know nothing... the girls are usually portrayed unrealistically and the guys as idiot jocks. So nothing to see here... BUT I was made to watch this and review it for my work and wow, I was really surprised. It's a simple story but one that anyone can relate to, especially if you are in the U. K. it doesn't labour on all the usual tropes of stereo types and race cards. It doesn't even make make much of the fact that the 'star' is Iranian and comes from an Iranian family. It just features a good mix of friends that isn't forced or come across as artificial. It just does what it has to and delivers in a way that will make you think, what if... and re-evaluate all that you do and have done with your life... because each of our clocks is only going one way and that is ticking down. The film isn't overly long too and just right at its 90 mins. It's not a movie to change the world and there's no great cinematography or stupendous acting in it. It's just a good watch all the way through. And there's nothing wrong with that.