Growing up is difficult. Growing old, even more so. The
mindset that aging can put people in can make for great works of cinema, but
unfortunately, this film isn’t one of them. Based on the 2010 documentary Men
Who Swim (making this the third film I’ve covered this year that’s based on a
pre-existing piece of cinema, after Fighting With My Family and Hotel Mumbai),
this film has its material cut out for it with a story about a group of older
men who form a synchronised swimming team and compete on the international
level in Milan. However, both as a dramatisation of actual events and as a piece of drama on its own, this
fails to do much more than swim in circles.
