Dallas Fisher

Welcome to the world of underwater manual labor. It’s a premise that deserves a deeper look into what dangers this job holds, oh wait… they’ve already made a documentary about this exact situation and given it the same title? 

Last Breath has trouble keeping its head above water for many reasons. To start, every character is miscast. Woody may be charming but he’s put in a role that’s mainly just sitting in a confined space having conversations with the likes of an emotionally confused Simu Liu and a subjectively bad actor in Finn Cole. Other characters on the captain’s ship, while important, felt like they were in a different movie altogether. 

Once these characters are put in the dangerous situations that set off the conflict, you’d be hoping for feelings of claustrophobia, panic, or distress. Instead I was feeling a lack of concern because the way it was placed out for the audience felt very obvious for our character’s fate. Things could have been more dramatic if any light source would have been used for the underwater scenes. 

This movie has some cool technology and “costume design” but a true story can only be so interesting. Taking a documentary about a real life situation and doing nothing exciting with your retelling makes for a boring time at the movies. 

I hope we aren’t heading towards a world where documentaries are getting remade into scripted movies.

4.5/10