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‘Last Breath’ Review: Woody Harrelson and Simu Liu in a True-Life Undersea Rescue Thriller That Takes You Down and Lifts You Up
Alex Parkinson's film is about a saturation diving accident that took place in 2012. In its journalistic way the film takes you down and lifts you up.
There’s a certain kind of true-life logistical rescue drama — Ron Howard’s “Apollo 13” is the granddaddy of them — that makes you realize how larded with theatrical devices most movies really are. As Duncan remains in the bell, Chris and David, in their scuba gear and spiked metal helmets, slip out the hole in the floor and down to the bottom of the sea, where there’s a boxy grate they can hold onto called the manifold. The task they’re doing is supposedly routine, but there’s one unusual element: Up top, the massive support ship the diving bell is tethered to is caught in a raging, wave-tossed sea storm.
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