The true story of a team of deep-sea divers who race against time at the bottom of the North Sea to rescue their partner after a horrible accident.
Captivating but not without flaws. This is a fascinating as well as terrifying story. Alex Parkinson’s Last Breath is the adaptation of the homonymous documentary Last Breath (2019) – also co-directed by Parkinson – which, for better or for worse, was more gripping than the film. As you can understand, the comparisons are inevitable. In an attempt to avoid them, though, I will focus on the film.
While the script has all the ingredients for success, the film’s pace and rhythm are problematic. It is a film with a documentary’s pace, but Hollywood’s “last-minute” saves. Understandably, that causes some confusion. Having said that, though, there are moments that it will cut your breath short. The wonderful cast has something to do with that. Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis, Mark Bonnar, MyAnna Buring, and the rest of the cast do an incredible job in front of the camera, which adds extra points to the film’s credibility.
If you don’t know the story, you will find it as extraordinary as if you did. No one can wrap their head around how that happened. If you believe in miracles, this is the closest you will encounter, even if it didn’t happen to you. Definitely worth your time regardless of the documentary’s success. You might even reevaluate life, death and everything we know (or think we know) about them.
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