I know we have talked about this before, but there is a reason that I am reiterating that I am a PADI certified SCUBA diver. One of my favorites dives was when I was fifty feet below the ocean off the coast of Cancun: seeing sea life and coral that you would normally not see at the surface. When diving, you are literally in another world, experiencing things you would never expect, however you do need to be properly trained because one simple mistake can literally cost you dearly, and that is where Last Breath comes in.
Directed by Alex Parkinson (River Monsters), Last Breath stars Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis, and Mark Bonnar. This story (based on actual events) centers on a dive team of Chris Lemons (Cole), Dave Yuasa (Liu) and Duncan Allock (Harrelson), all of deep sea divers who do maintenance on gas lines at the bottom of the ocean. While doing some repair work three hundred feet under the surface of the North, things so wrong while Chris and Dave are working when the ship has mechanical problems, losing propulsion, which catches Chris at the bottom of the ocean. As the ship drifts, Chris’s diving umbilical lines get disconnected, and there is a race against time as the crew tries to get control of the ship back and rescue Chris for before he runs out of the emergency air supply in his suit and dies from oxygen deprivation.
I won’t bury the lead here: this film put me on the edge of my seat for a good portion of its ninety-three-minute runtime. Last Breath is so intense that there were moments when I could literally hear a pin drop in the theater at the screening I attended. The action is realistic and the cast really brings the story home, making me feel like I was watching people in a real life emergency.
This film even ups the emotions with a lot of use of the darkness that the crew would be dealing with during a situation like this. There were moments of pure pitch black here, which is exactly how it would be in a underground cave after losing your light source. This is actually one of the few times where I wish a movie would keep going, especially since there was nothing that needed to be cut back. Once it got going (which did not take long) it never stopped and flew by.
I cannot say enough good things about Last Breath, which also uses actual footage of the events it is based on. Saying all of that, this film gets the honor of being the first film in 2025 that gets my “coveted” full price in theaters recommendation along with the possibility that it could make a certain list at the end of the year.
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