This is one of those movies that should have gotten a lot more press. It's tense and riveting even when you know how it ends. DH and I left the theater wasted on our own adrenaline.
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PROS
1) I usually don't give kudos to the setting, but let's face it. The North Sea is not a place you want to be in the best of times, much less when things go wrong. It's a cold, harsh, unforgiving environent.
2) The action focuses on the three saturation divers who have just descended to work on a North Sea pipeline. Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, and Finn Cole give wonderful, understated performances as three men who know they're in deep sh*t and try to focus on their jobs.
3) Cliff Curtis also does fabulous work in his supporting role as the captain of the ship, who's juggling the lives of three of his men against his duty to the world at large.
CONS
1) I don't know if this is really a CON. It's not a short movie, but tension permeated me to the point where I was shocked it was over.
Overall, this was a superb tale about a real-life event. There's no fakeness, no overwhelming CGI. The only special effects necessary were the simulations of a dive-sea dive. Don't look up the actual incident before you see this movie. Afterwards, judge for yourself how close the film makers came to recreating the events.
The Last Breath gets a strong 10 out of 10 stars for being a good solid thriller.
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