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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 31, 2025

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

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 19, 2025

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 17, 2025

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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 13, 2025

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.

| Mar 8, 2025

The film wisely clocks in at just over 90 minutes, giving a sense of urgency that serves the story well. The watery recreations are well done; If you fear drowning as much as I do, these scenes will be even more effective.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 6, 2025

Last Breath is a midsize version of a large-scale thriller, one that isn’t afraid to seem boring, and I mean that as a major compliment.

| Mar 3, 2025

Last Breath” does follow a formula in its telling, but given that’s based on a true story, that seems like the right approach.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2025

I was disappointed by this iteration of Last Breath. Chris has an incredible story. The same goes for all of those who were involved with his rescue. But I didn’t care. Not about Chris. Not about his shipmates. Not about any of it. Talk about a tragedy.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 3, 2025

It feels like a great throwback thriller, one of those movies viewers will still be discovering years from now. Try to see it on a big screen while you can.

| Mar 1, 2025

This version has many nail-biting moments, with tension amped up by a bombastic score, but it feels derivative. Drama has been sacrificed to verisimilitude, and to what end?

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 1, 2025

The dramatized version simply floats, roils and plods forward as if being tugged dutifully along, ticking off checkpoints along the way.

| Mar 1, 2025

Director Alex Parkinson has an excellent handle on the logistical details of the perilous work... But the filmmaker struggles to tether all the technicalities to the human drama needed to make the endeavour relatable to us landlubbers.

| Mar 1, 2025

Workmanlike, well-cast and more straightforward than a James Cameron spectacle like The Abyss, Last Breath isn’t for the claustrophobic or those suffering from aquaphobia.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2025

Last Breath is a powerful story, well-told in all the ways that matter, but Harrelson’s performance remains the highlight.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 1, 2025

A movie of barely sketched personalities and trite emotional stakes (the lovely Bobby Rainsbury, as Lemons’s anxious fiancée, is especially underserved), “Last Breath” is disappointingly shallow and fatally lethargic.

| Feb 28, 2025

This is a lean, fast-moving and effective movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2025

This sturdy, solid thriller underscores that at their core, survival stories are always stories of humanity’s best, and the impossible things we can achieve when we work together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 28, 2025

Sometimes the truth is stranger than fiction, but "Last Breath" seems unsure of how to handle its own admittedly remarkable turn of events.

| Original Score: C | Feb 28, 2025

Narrative remakes of documentaries are right up there with live-action remakes of animated features when it comes to cinema’s most pointless genre.

| Feb 28, 2025