Last Breath

3/8/2025

**Rating --- 7/10** I really liked this movie, based on quite an interesting real story. I personally love anything to do with water so a movie about a diving accident falls right into my ball park. Some CCTV parts seem to be from the real deal, which makes it all the better. This gives it an eerie look. I do think it could use a bit less dramatic music, some scenes would be a lot better with different music choices or just pure silence, such as Dave jumping off of the dive bell to go rescue Chris. Overall the movie was fantastic.

3/19/2025

Chris (Finn Cole) is a young deep sea diver who is about to get married to Morag (Bobby Rainsbury) but who has one month-long job working maintaining pipelines at the bottom of the North Sea to complete, first. The team is led by his friend, the experienced Duncan (Woody Harrelson) and they are to be joined on the trip by the slightly aloof Dave (Simu Liu) who is wary of the skills of the young man. Anyway, off they set into the teeth of a storm and with 20-foot waves pounding their ship the latter two descend to the bottom and that’s when it all goes a bit off-piste. On the surface, the ship loses stabilising power and that leaves the divers stranded, then Chris gets his ropes entangled and it soon becomes quite a desperate rescue mission with time very much against them. It’s based on tr

4/4/2025

Director Alex Parkinson‘s “Last Breath” (a feature film remake of his acclaimed 2019 documentary of the same name) attempts to dramatize the harrowing true story of a deep-sea diver’s fight for survival. Instead of delivering a gripping thriller, it sinks under the weight of forced emotion, weak character development, and uninspired storytelling. This is the type of film that will have you questioning why a fictionalized dramatization needed to exist in the first place. The film tells the incredible true story of Chris Lemons (Finn Cole), a deep sea diver who, after his umbilical cord snapped during a routine saturation dive, left him trapped over 300 feet underwater with only minutes of oxygen left in his backup tank. Miraculously, Lemons survived for more than half an hour on the ocea