Swimming with Sharks

THe critics who called this dark and sometimes distrubing movie hilarious need to wonder about themseleves. Don't get me wrong, Swimming with sharks is a very good movie, but I didn't find it funny at all. Kevin Spacey plays one of... Full review

I was really looking for a comedy to cheer me up, but instead I got a drama that actually had a pretty decent plot. The reason for the C- is it wasn't very funny.... Full review

This movie was a disapointment the charecters were unlikable.I did watch the whole thing and the funny part was when the tabasco sauce was put into paper cuts.... Full review

Swimming with Sharks was an earlier work of Spacey and perhaps one of his better efforts in acting. Many of his other roles are rather sedate and reserved such as KPAX or Se7en, but this one is more like his... Full review

... made my ears bleed. Not really, but I did not like this movie at all. I stuck it out to watch Kevin but I eventually turned it off. I hope you don't go out and rent this movie, save your... Full review

This film would be worth watching just for Kevin Spacey's portrayal of the ultimate boss from hell, Buddy Ackerman, but there's also much more than that going on. Ostensibly a damning look at the inner workings of the film business,... Full review

Swimming with Sharks sees Guy (Frank Whaley) attempt to "turn the tables" on his abusive boss Buddy (Kevin Spacey), and while this makes the film simple and unoriginal in terms of plot, it is a cut above the rest thanks... Full review

swimming with sharks is a very good film, a dark look at hollywood through the struggle of a young mans troubles with a producer.This film deserves much more credit,spacey was great here in this film as well as whaley, its just... Full review

The acting is out freaking standing. Spacey will make you laugh and cringe all at the same time with his tirades and how he tears into his assisstant ( Frank Whaley ). I have read stories and this is not an... Full review

The plot basis may seem sophmoric; the idea of getting back at one's boss, it is executed outstandingly. Many have criticized the movie for its ending, but it is the perfect way to end this particular film. Kevin Spacey's acting is... Full review

It's sarcastic, abusive, aggressive, and pretty darn bleak.....For a comedy, it's pretty darn bleak.....If all you remember of this film is Kevin Spacey screaming his head off, you owe it to yourself to give the flick a second spin.....Swimming with Sharks feels like real-life angst and well-earned frustration as poured out into screenplay form.....Regardless of which audio track you choose, expect to hear Spacey's bombastic bellowings in fine aural form..... ... Full Review

The film is a fantastic combination of dark comedy and drama.....become tired after half of the movie....Kevin Spacey is absolutely fabulous as the meglomaniacal studio executive who seems to take pleasure in berating Guy.....However, Spacey's scenes, where he belittles and berates Guy, are hilarious..... ... Full Review

Swimming With Sharks" could turn into an in-joke wallow for disgruntled Hollywood types but the joke really isn't all that funny. As fascinatingly repellent as it is, "Swimming With Sharks" takes out its Hollywood hatred in ways that seem absurdly overwrought. ... Full Review

Swimming With Sharks,'' despite its attempt to be wicked and hiply fun, is ultimately just tiring as it pits people against one another. Spacey's such a lively talent that he nearly succeeds in keeping the story of a predatory movie mogul and his victimized assistant's audacious revenge from caving in on itself. ... Full Review

You are here for me ," Spacey takes such palpable delight in being a suave hard-ass that it's impossible not to like him. Spacey makes us see how idealism can calcify, over years of disappointment and stress, into cynicism, self-hatred, cruelty. ... Full Review

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Just 23, Michael Lesslie has notched up a formidable array of credits since he started writing at 16. Flipping between stage and screen, he wrote the 2006 BAFTAnominated short Heavy Metal Drummer , adapted Swimming With Sharks for the London... ... Full Article

The creative team includes design by Dick Bird, lighting design by Paul Anderson, sound design by Matt McKenzie, and direction by Wilson Milam. In the play, written by Michael Lesslie, Buddy Ackerman is an incendiary, irresistible movie producer, one of... ... Full Article

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'Swimming with Sharks' features one of Kevin Spacey's finer roles, as Buddy Ackerman, a sadistic, tyrannical studio executive who enjoys terrorizing his assistant, Guy (Frank Whaley), who wants to make it big in Hollywood, and believes the only way to... ... Full Article