{"id":11238,"date":"2025-02-26T23:20:10","date_gmt":"2025-02-27T04:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/?p=11238"},"modified":"2025-03-22T19:17:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T23:17:22","slug":"last-breath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/2025\/02\/26\/last-breath\/","title":{"rendered":"Last Breath"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Last Breath<\/strong> (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Focus\/Drama-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (brief strong language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Alex Parkinson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Mitchell LaFortune, Alex Parkinson and David Brooks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Paul Leonard-Morgan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Nick Remy Matthews\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: February 28, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis, Mark Bonnar, MyAnna Buring, Josef Altin, Bobby Rainsbury.<\/p>\n

Rating<\/strong>: ***<\/p>\n

\u00a0The survival thriller Last Breath<\/strong> is the second BOATS (Based on a True Story) movie to hit theaters in as many weeks. It\u2019s directed by first-time feature filmmaker Alex Parkinson who also co-directed the same-named 2019 documentary upon which it\u2019s based. It\u2019s a fictionalized account of Chris Lemons, a saturation diver who nearly died when he got stranded under the sea without oxygen for almost 30 minutes. The film chronicles his colleagues\u2019 efforts to locate and rescue him. It\u2019s quite a story.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I should start by telling you what a saturation diver is. They\u2019re the guys (and girls) who engage in a specialized kind of diving that allows them to remain in the water at great depths for extended periods of time. The divers in Last Breath<\/strong> are responsible for repairs to the pipeline lying about 100 meters under the North Sea. It\u2019s not a simple job to begin with, but circumstances turn it into a real ordeal.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Chris (Cole, Peaky Binders) heads off for a 30-day gig to repair pipeline off the coast of Scotland. His worried fiancee Morag (Rainsbury, Vigil) begs him to be careful. He assures her he\u2019ll be fine. The young diver boards the vessel Bibby Topaz where he\u2019s teamed with veteran Duncan Allcock (Harrelson, Natural Born Killers) and super-serious David Yuasa (Liu, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings).<\/p>\n

\u00a0After three days of pressurization, they\u2019re ready to get started. David and Chris get in the water while Duncan takes care of the topside work. The ship\u2019s positioning systems fails and it drifts off-course into rough waters. It drags both divers from where they were works and causes Chris\u2019 umbilical tether to snap. Without it, he won\u2019t have hot water to regulate his body temperature or oxygen to help him breathe. Unable to return to the ship, he has to wait down there to be found and saved from certain death. Of course, the longer he\u2019s down there, the more likely the mission will go from rescue to recovery.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Although it would easy to Google the outcome of this situation, I\u2019m not going to reveal it here. I knew absolutely nothing about it going in. I didn\u2019t even know Last Breath<\/strong> was a true story until the movie started. For the most part, it\u2019s a compelling tale. It\u2019s reasonably tense with the ship\u2019s crew trying to get their systems working again while Duncan and Dave try to save their friend while flying blind.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The thing is there have been hundreds of survival movies like Last Breath<\/strong>. The one that springs to mind first is Gravity in which Sandra Bullock and George Clooney find themselves stranded in outer space with no easy way home. The 2013 sci-fi-drama was an experience if you saw it in IMAX 3D. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019d say that about Last Breath<\/strong>. I saw it a regular theater with no bells and whistles. I\u2019m sure some of the shots would look cool, but the movie as a whole doesn\u2019t call for it. Still, it features some great underwater cinematography by Nick Remy Matthews (ISS). For a change, it\u2019s not murky. It\u2019s dark, but you can see what\u2019s going on at all times.<\/p>\n

\u00a0The acting in Last Breath<\/strong> is just fine. I have no complaints about it. The characters are exactly the type you\u2019d expect to find in a film such as this. Woody is the older, seen-it-all\/done-it-all diver about to be retired by the company. This is to be his last job. Simu is the guy who takes his job extremely seriously, at one point warning Chris about distractions when he tapes a pic of his fiancee next to his bunk. Finn is the young enthusiast excited about working with a diving legend like Dave (aka \u201cThe Vulcan\u201d). Cliff Curtis (Whale Rider) is solid as the ship\u2019s captain trying to do right by the divers and his frightened crew. We\u2019ve seen these types before and I\u2019m sure we\u2019ll see them again.<\/p>\n

\u00a0I really don\u2019t have much else to say about Last Breath<\/strong>. It\u2019s a pretty good movie. It\u2019s what my dad called a matinee movie. You see it during the day at bargain prices. In the 80s and 90s, it would have been a \u201cwait for video\u201d title. It\u2019s good, but hardly worth the fuss of a trip to the cinema. It\u2019s enjoyable but instantly forgettable.\"\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last Breath (2025)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Focus\/Drama-Thriller\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RT: 93 minutes\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Rated PG-13 (brief strong language)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Director: Alex Parkinson\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Screenplay: Mitchell LaFortune, Alex Parkinson and David Brooks\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Music: Paul Leonard-Morgan\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cinematography: Nick Remy Matthews\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Release date: February 28, 2025 (US)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Cast: Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis, Mark Bonnar, MyAnna Buring, Josef Altin, Bobby Rainsbury. Rating: *** […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11240,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dramas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Last-Breath-POSTER.jpg?fit=620%2C918&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11238"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11242,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11238\/revisions\/11242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/movieguy247.com\/MovieGuy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}