Movie Review - Swingers

Actually this film scores a 0/10. It's utter tripe, total excrement. There, I had to get that over & said. The only people I knew were Vince Vaughn and Heather Graham. I did know the guy playing Mike (Jon Favreau), but I never knew his name until I wiki'd the film. Isn't the black guy who "didn't get the part in Deep Space Nine" the same chap who plays the blind guy in the American sitcom Becker?.

Basically this is a film with no plot, no storyline and nothing happening the whole time. Someone described it as a real guy movie? Dude, nothing happens in the film ever. We basically follow the life of a guy (who calls himself an actor and comedian but we never see any evidence of either) bitching about a relationship that ended over 6 months ago (get over it!), and his friends who just go out on the club and party scene to try and meet women - mostly with no intent to ever follow up.

This film is described as an attempt to create a modern day film in the style of The Rat Pack. Which it doesn't do. The film really doesn't do anything. Even when Mike finally meets a girl in a bar (Heather Graham who looks stunning in the 1950's style hair, make-up & clothes) and his ex girlfriend rings him he ignores her to speak to Graham. We never find out what happens to either relationship as the film ends abruptly after a really awful scene in a diner where Vaughn thinks a women is coming on to him when she is actually entertaining her baby.

There is no start, no middle and no end to this film. There is no film, but it still managed to go on for 1 hour and 45 minutes. Avoid this. I'd sooner see Best Defence or Ishtar, and they are dire. So that's saying something. Even fans of Vaughn & Graham are advised to give this one a miss. How they ever sold the idea to a production studio or got anyone to finance this is beyond me.