In 1992, a young girl goes out to her family pool one night to retrieve her brother’s toy boat. Something in the pool pulls her underwater and she dies. 30 years later, the Waller family purchase the home and fall in love with the swimming pool.
Night Swim may have an original premise but it is pretty mundane. There are a couple of jump scares but, for the most part it just plods along. Writers Bryce McGuire (who also directs) and Rod Blackhurst try to throw all sorts of mad ideas into the story towards the end but that just results in it making less and less sense.
It is a tribute, then, to the talents of Kerry Condon, that she manages to give a compelling performance as Eve Waller. Wyatt Russell, who plays her husband, though, did not convince me once that he is a star baseball player.
Rating: 5 out of 10