It's far too shallow of a movie for such an important subject.

The history of how online dating went from deeply uncool to de rigueur is one worth telling, and Swiped’s methods, corny and contrived as they can be, are proficient enough to do it.

Swiped aims to explore the difficulties of being a woman in a man’s world, from workplaces to the internet more widely. It does so in broad strokes with predictable characterization.

In many ways, the film feels firmly in the past, but that’s until you find out that it really isn’t.