Last Breath (2025)
Movie · 2025 · Thriller, Drama · 1h 33m · PG-13 · English
Curator score: 3.0/10 (119.6K ratings)
Tagline: Make every breath count.
Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.
Ratings:
- Curator score: 3.0/10
- IMDb: 6.6/10
- Letterboxd: 3.09/5
- Rotten Tomatoes: 79%
- Metacritic: 65
- TMDB: 6.9/10
Director: Alex Parkinson
Production: Dark Castle Entertainment, MetFilm Production, Longshot Films, Floating Harbour, FilmNation Entertainment, Thing 44
Cast: Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis, Mark Bonnar, MyAnna Buring, Josef Altin, Bobby Rainsbury, Connor Reed, Nick Biadon, Riz Khan, Aldo Silvio, Kevin Naudi, Claudiu Baciu, Brett Murray, Muhammad Arnini Bin Ariffin, Yaroslav Musii, Ramon Camilleri, Christian Scicluna, Daithí O'Donnell
Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Curator Review
Verdict: A lean, competent survival thriller with real tension and strong job-specific detail, but it’s also fairly familiar and emotionally thin. The premise does most of the heavy lifting, so your enjoyment will depend on whether you want an efficient anxiety machine or something more layered.
Best for: fans of contained survival thrillers; viewers who like procedural competence and teamwork; people drawn to true-story rescue dramas; audiences who enjoy short, brisk genre films
Skip if: you want a deeply character-driven drama; you’re tired of disaster-movie beats; you prefer big spectacle over tight suspense; you dislike movies that feel like polished reenactments
Overview: Last Breath works best as a pressure-cooker survival movie: tight, urgent, and built around the nightmare logistics of keeping someone alive in an impossible environment. It leans into the appeal of professionals doing dangerous work with calm precision, which gives it a satisfying “how is this even possible?” momentum.
Worth noting: The film’s biggest strength is its premise, and it knows it. There’s enough craft here to sustain the tension, but not quite enough depth to make it linger after the credits. Some viewers will find that efficiency refreshing; others may feel the movie is content to be merely solid when it could have been more haunting.
Bottom line: If you want a clean, mid-budget thriller that delivers anxiety, competence, and a few good jolts, this does the job. If you’re hoping for richer character arcs or a more memorable emotional payoff, it may feel like a strong one-time watch rather than a keeper.
Top Letterboxd reviews:
- Patrick Willems: This is the peak dad cinema we’ve been missing. Men being hyper-competent at jobs I simply would never do in a million years. Also being set in Scotland we’ve got some AMAZING knitwear here.
- theo: i’m so grateful for free will so that i never have to do this
- stef: why would they put themselves in that situation again three weeks later?
- Evan Kraft: In 8 months my dad is going to ask me “hey, did you ever see that movie with Woody Harrelson where he does that deep sea mission” and I’ll be like “oh yeah I saw it in theaters in like February” and he’ll say “oh cool I just saw it last night on Prime it was pretty good” and then the conversation will be over and it will be the next and only other time I will ever think about this movie.
- lea ༉‧₊˚🪽🕯️ ᩚ: petition to have woody harrelson in every movie
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Last Breath (2025)
Movie · 2025 · Thriller, Drama · 1h 33m · PG-13 · English
Curator score: 3.0/10 (119.6K ratings)
Make every breath count.
Overview Seasoned deep-sea divers battle the raging elements to rescue their crewmate trapped hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface.
Ratings
Curator score: 3.0/10
IMDb: 6.6/10
Letterboxd: 3.09/5
Rotten Tomatoes: 79%
Metacritic: 65
TMDB: 6.9/10
Production Dark Castle Entertainment, MetFilm Production, Longshot Films, Floating Harbour, FilmNation Entertainment, Thing 44
Cast Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole, Cliff Curtis, Mark Bonnar, MyAnna Buring, Josef Altin, Bobby Rainsbury, Connor Reed, Nick Biadon, Riz Khan, Aldo Silvio, Kevin Naudi, Claudiu Baciu, Brett Murray, Muhammad Arnini Bin Ariffin, Yaroslav Musii, Ramon Camilleri, Christian Scicluna, Daithí O'Donnell
Where to watch Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Curator Review
Verdict
A lean, competent survival thriller with real tension and strong job-specific detail, but it’s also fairly familiar and emotionally thin. The premise does most of the heavy lifting, so your enjoyment will depend on whether you want an efficient anxiety machine or something more layered.
Best for
fans of contained survival thrillers
viewers who like procedural competence and teamwork
people drawn to true-story rescue dramas
audiences who enjoy short, brisk genre films
Skip if
you want a deeply character-driven drama
you’re tired of disaster-movie beats
you prefer big spectacle over tight suspense
you dislike movies that feel like polished reenactments
Overview
Last Breath works best as a pressure-cooker survival movie: tight, urgent, and built around the nightmare logistics of keeping someone alive in an impossible environment. It leans into the appeal of professionals doing dangerous work with calm precision, which gives it a satisfying “how is this even possible?” momentum.
Worth noting
The film’s biggest strength is its premise, and it knows it. There’s enough craft here to sustain the tension, but not quite enough depth to make it linger after the credits. Some viewers will find that efficiency refreshing; others may feel the movie is content to be merely solid when it could have been more haunting.
Bottom line
If you want a clean, mid-budget thriller that delivers anxiety, competence, and a few good jolts, this does the job. If you’re hoping for richer character arcs or a more memorable emotional payoff, it may feel like a strong one-time watch rather than a keeper.
Top Letterboxd reviews
Patrick Willems · 1450 likes
This is the peak dad cinema we’ve been missing. Men being hyper-competent at jobs I simply would never do in a million years. Also being set in Scotland we’ve got some AMAZING knitwear here.
theo (3.5★) · 1143 likes
i’m so grateful for free will so that i never have to do this
stef (2.5★) · 914 likes
why would they put themselves in that situation again three weeks later?
Evan Kraft (2.5★) · 888 likes
In 8 months my dad is going to ask me “hey, did you ever see that movie with Woody Harrelson where he does that deep sea mission” and I’ll be like “oh yeah I saw it in theaters in like February” and he’ll say “oh cool I just saw it last night on Prime it was pretty good” and then the conversation will be over and it will be the next and only other time I will ever think about this movie.
lea ༉‧₊˚🪽🕯️ ᩚ (3.5★) · 551 likes
petition to have woody harrelson in every movie
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Topics
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