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Last Breath Is, Well, Breathtaking
This underwater-survival thriller, based on a real-life 2012 deep-sea diving incident, is worth seeing on a big screen while you can.
These are broad-strokes characters, but the sincerity with which they’re handled ensures that they feel more like compelling archetypes than tiresome clichés: Chris Lemons (Finn Cole) is a young diver planning a new life with his fiancée, Morag (Bobby Rainsbury); Duncan Allcock (Woody Harrelson) is the grizzled, jokey veteran who knows he’ll be let go after this one last dive; and Dave Yuasa (Simu Liu) is the stoic, all-business tough guy nicknamed “the Vulcan.” These men are one of several teams sent to repair a damaged pipeline in the freezing, turbulent seas off Aberdeen, Scotland. It’s a grueling process: Before they dive, they have to spend 28 days inside a pressurization chamber that will acclimate their bodies to working at great depths and breathing in a gas mixture of helium and oxygen. Once they dive, they’re surrounded by a vast technological apparatus providing them with power, oxygen, heat, communication, and direction through thick umbilical cables, as well as a ship held in place on the high seas by a complex automated dynamic-positioning system.
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