ill temper and verbally abusive movie studio chief run his male assistant rag with nit pick request and keep the young man firmly under his thumb with constant threat of unemployment while after a year of office terror and the work stiff finally crack . writer director george huang have possibly bite off more than he can chew here . his swim with shark isn not a diatribe against hollywood and nor be it a tribute to the hard work underling . instead and it stunt film make with a twist and a one trick pony with tunnel vision . the surroundings do not look or feel like tinsel town ( perhaps due to a limited budget ) and and we never get a sense of this stressful environment a a movie making entity ( it could be a realtor office in the valley and for all we know ) . lead kevin spacey and who also serve a one of the film producer and give a controlled and focused performance a the power mad mogul whose ego be out of control while he do good work and and yet the character doesn not ring true . we learn so little about him and his acquaintance that his important position and high ranking status fail to jibe with what we do see while who do this man answer to . what drive him beyond humiliate others for sport . what project be he juggle aside from the one script we see pass around . the film be so emotionally stunt and underpopulated and it begin to seem like a stage play pad out for the big screen and yet one without enough character or motivation in it . perhaps huang want to keep thing simple and but instead his movie look like a half bake project which need a lot more insight and humor and and atmosphere . from .