Alex Parkinson
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It's a sea-faring adventure drama in the vein of The Perfect Storm, Deepwater Horizon, and The Finest Hours…
If you enjoy survival thrillers like “The Perfect Storm” (2000), “Last Breath” is a must-see movie.
…think Apollo 13 meets The Perfect Storm…
…think Apollo 13 meets The Perfect Storm…
Echoes of films like Apollo 13 and Touching The Void can be heard…
Some have compared “Last Breath” to Ron Howard’s 1995 “Apollo 13,”…
It doesn’t have the flair or immersion factor of Alfonso Cuarón’s Gravity but it is a gripping against-the-odds thriller that will have you waiting to exhale.
When Alfonso Cuarón directed Gravity, he and his casting director faced a dilemma: cast two major stars, Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, to bring financial appeal, or cast two unknown actors to lend the film more authenticity.
…the award-winning documentary director Joshua Oppenheimer crafted a dull, lifeless fiction vehicle with his apocalyptic musical “The End.”
…the same occurred when Joshua Oppenheimer released The End last year…
The Deep contrived a third act which Last Breath didn’t have, which laid out an investigation of the near impossibility of the survival story told…
Think of James Cameron, whose patience in showing us the inner workings of the ship in Titanic — the men working in its bowels, all those pounding pistons and burning furnaces — fills us with awe when things are going smoothly and with terror when they’re not.
It's a sea-faring adventure drama in the vein of The Perfect Storm, Deepwater Horizon, and The Finest Hours…
It's a sea-faring adventure drama in the vein of The Perfect Storm, Deepwater Horizon, and The Finest Hours…
Think a twenty-first century equipment version of “Star Trek” meets “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea” (1954).
Films like The Abyss (1989), Leviathan (1989), and Underwater (2020) and Leviathan easily spring to mind during the initial dive and walk to the darkened manifold…
Films like The Abyss (1989), Leviathan (1989), and Underwater (2020) and Leviathan easily spring to mind during the initial dive and walk to the darkened manifold…
Echoes of films like Apollo 13 and Touching The Void can be heard…
Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin sadly fell through many traps while making Nyad, their first fiction filmmaking attempt…
While acclaimed nonfiction filmmaker RaMell Ross was able to play with the narrative form in his adaptation of “Nickel Boys,”…
Throw in some bloodthirsty sharks and you’ve got yourself 47 Meters Down.
Films like The Abyss (1989), Leviathan (1989), and Underwater (2020) and Leviathan easily spring to mind during the initial dive and walk to the darkened manifold…
…it can also be set beside a more recent Howard effort, “Thirteen Lives” (2022), which recreated the 2018 rescue of a boys’ soccer team from a flooding cave in Thailand…
In the US, Last Breath opened as counterprogramming to Captain America; Brave New World…