The Last Breath Review – Intense, A Riveting Underwater Diving Drama

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Category: Indies, Docs, Foreign Film

Published on Wednesday, 24 July 2024 12:59

Written by Janet Walker

The Last Breath, from RLJE Films, presents a race against time underwater diving thriller, as the exploration of a WWII battleship becomes a death trap when a group of Great White sharks decide to hunt.

The film opens with the sinking of the USS Charlotte, a World War II battleship off the coast of the British Virgin Islands. We understand in the first few minutes that finding the Charlotte had been a lifelong pursuit of an aging ex-pat, Levi, played by Julian Sands, who runs a local dive shop.

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His partner, Noah, played by Jack Parr, a recent college dropout, has been doing most of the underwater exploration and leading tourists on dive tours. Together, when they have no paying customers, which is often, Noah explores the area where the Charlotte was said to have sunk.

On this day, after marking grid patterns for an upcoming dive tour, he sees something in the distance and realizes the recent tropical storm shifted the sand, uncovering the ship. Noah makes his way into the vessel, slowly moving through the darkened underwater grave.

Once he and Levi realize what they have found, there is cause for celebration. Levi hasn’t told Noah, that his business is going under, and without a good season of steady dives, the dive business is over.

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Today, however, four of Noah’s college friends, Sam, played by Kim Spearman, Riley, played by Erin Mullen, Logan, played by Arlo Carter, and Brett, played by Alexander Arnold, are coming down for a dive weekend. When Noah explains what they have found, Logan, who has since realized his Wall Street dreams, continues, all night, as the alcohol flows, to increase the cash offer so they can be the first people in eighty years to dive the USS Charlotte. Once he hits the magic number, Noah agrees.

The group, all seasoned divers, understands safety first, but seem to forget they are visitors in the underwater world, and the tanks are the lifeline to survival. Of course, showboat Logan, living his home front hotshot ways, continues to play lone ranger underwater, even while Noah explains, that the slower the dive the more oxygen you’ll conserve.

Once the group enters the ship, the suspense increases. Surprises lurk around every corner, from skeletal remains to twisted, jagged, metal. Then, just as they are preparing to backtrack and exit the ship, the tracking line they use to find their way out is no longer taunt, and they realize it has been cut. Then the shadow appears. Noah immediately realizes the shadows are sharks, which sets off a panic.

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The dream dive rapidly becomes a nightmare as they are trapped in the darkness of the Charlotte’s interior, thirty meters down and with a dwindling air supply. In one second, a shark comes out of nowhere and attacks, and with a trail of blood in the water, the lone predator has summoned others.

With heightened moments of extreme suspense, The Last Breath delivers the amplified intensity of a man against shark film. The ensemble captures the range of escalating emotions, panic, terror, and powerlessness as time runs out.  

The Last Breath, a gripping underwater horror film, is in theaters and On Demand, beginning Friday, July 26, 2024, See it.

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Country: U.S.

Language:  English.

Run Time: 92 Mins.

Director: Joachim Hedén.

Executive Producer: Lauren Case, Anders Erden, Eric Harbert, Matthew Smith Lyons, Eill Machin, Sam Parker, Sara Shaak, Blair Ward, Shannon D. Ward, Sean Wheelan, Michael Yates.

Writer: Nick Saltrese, Andrew Prendergast.

Cast: Kim Spearman, Jack Parr, Alexander Arnold, Erin Mullen, Arlo Carter, Julian Sands, Maxime Durand, William Erazo Fernandez.