Last Breath is directed by Alex Parkinson who co-directed the documentary called Last Breath back in 2019. Both the feature and the documentary tell the true story of a serious diving accident, off the coast of Scotland, in 2012 that resulted in diver Chris Lemons breathing cable being severed resulting in him being trapped around 100 meters under the sea with only a small amount of breathing gas in his reserve tank.

Chris Lemons (Finn Cole), Duncan Allcock (Woody Harrelson), and David Yuasa (Simu Liu) are members of a team of saturation divers tasked with repairing an undersea gas line in the North Sea.

The divers’ diving bell is tethered to the mother ship by an umbilical cord. Here they have to spend some considerable time acclimatizing themselves to the pressures 300 feet under the surface.

On the trios’ first dive, and with a raging storm taking place on the surface, the mother ship loses its anchorage causing it to drift uncontrollably. With Duncan Allcock still in the diving bell Chris Lemons and David Yuasa have to make a mad scramble for safety as they start to get pulled by the out of control ship.

Lemons, who was working on the pipeline at the time of the incident, finds that his life saving oxygen cable gets snagged and eventually broken leaving his co-divers and those on the ship with little time to spare before his emergency oxygen reserves run out.

Cole, Harrelson and Liu are all terrific in a tense breathless and gripping edge of your seat thriller that’ll have you watching through your fingers.

Highly recommended.