Last Breath

I’m really missing an explanation for what happened to the freakin boat.

A great story powerfully told Written by Alex Parkinson, and directed by Parkinson and Richard Da Costa, Last Breath is the latest in the man vs. nature subgenre of documentary filmmaking. Using a mixture of talking head interviews, black box footage, camcorder material, and excellently mounted reconstructions, the film plays like an underwater survival thriller. And although the directors' insistence on building to a predictable and overly manipulated pseudo-twist undermines the seriousness of the material somewhat, with the story needing no such embellishment, this is still a superbly realised film; tense and fascinating, informatively dealing with a subject about which the vast majority of people will know next-to-nothing. For my complete review, please visit: https://boxd.it/GAaPN