Last Breath

What I love the most about it is that this really happened. These experts, with their skill and daring, did this thing. It was breathtaking and spectacular, and this movie really works.

A curiously bloodless account of a real-life disaster that has moments of gripping tension punctuating long stretches of fatally understated business as usual.

After seeing it, I felt deeply lucky to be chained to a desk.

Director Alex Parkinson, who co-directed a 2019 documentary about the incredible true story on which this film is based, makes an efficient fist of this breathless (literally) survival movie.

The deep, dark subaqueous world becomes the stage for a gripping survival drama. Parkinson and cinematographer Nick Remy Matthews understand this underworld realm as a place of gauzy slowness where dread unfolds at a measured pace.

Unfortunately, Last Breath squeezes every ounce of emotion from its premise. The suspense of locating Chris and determining his survival is extended to near excess.

Ultimately lacks depth.

"Last Breath" is a strange experience in that it’s profoundly thrilling yet also devoid of emotional connection.

It would have been nice to have held my own breath more often.

If you enjoy sitting on the edge of your seat. heart-racing, biting your nails with anxiety about what will happen next, 'Last Breath' is for you.