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GenreFeature film
RatedPG-13
Runtime1 hr 33 mins
ReleasedMarch 14, 2025
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorAlex Parkinson
StarringWoody Harrelson, Simu Liu, Finn Cole
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Last Breath (2025)
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| Genre | Feature film |
| Rated | PG-13 |
| Released | 02/27/2025 (Greece and the Netherlands); 02/28/2025 (US); 03/14/2025 (UK) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 33 mins |
| Budget | $23.8M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | Last Breath by Alex Parkinson and Richard da Costa |
| Country | United Kingdom, United States |
| Language | English |
| Last Breath's Interests | |
| General | Diving bells, pressure chambers, North Sea storms, lifelines, teamwork that has to be perfect. |
| Music | Paul Leonard-Morgan |
| Movies | Last Breath (2019). The documentary version of the same real story. |
| Television | Deadliest Catch. Another honest look at how hard the sea can be on a crew. |
| Heroes | Commercial divers everywhere. Hard, quiet work most of us never see. |
| Last Breath's Crew | |
| Director | Alex Parkinson |
| Writers | Mitchell LaFortune, Alex Parkinson, David Brooks |
| Producers | David Brooks, Paul Brooks, Hal Sadoff, Norman Golightly, Jeremy Plager, Stewart le Maréchal, Al Morrow, Anna Mohr-Pietsch |
| Cinematography | Nick Remy Matthews, Ian Seabrook |
| Music | Paul Leonard-Morgan |
| Edited By | Tania Goding |
| Production | Longshot Films, Dark Castle Entertainment, Gold Circle Films, MetFilm |
| Distributed By | Focus Features (Select territories), Entertainment Film Distributors (United Kingdom), FilmNation Entertainment (International) |
If you’ve seen the 2019 documentary this is based on, Last Breath has no surprises left for you. The people are lightly sketched too, because the movie cares more about procedure than personalities. The procedure is gripping. Saturation divers Chris Lemons, Duncan Allcock and David Yuasa spend weeks in pressurized chambers and ride a bell to the bottom of the North Sea to fix gas lines. When the ship’s positioning system fails in heavy seas, Chris’s lifeline snags and snaps, and he’s left alone on the seabed with only his emergency air. Alex Parkinson cuts between the dark water and a bridge crew trying to hold a drifting ship in place by hand, and the clock never lets up. Woody Harrelson is terrific as the veteran in the bell, and Simu Liu plays the diver who swears he’ll come back. A 6.9 because it’s lean, honest and a little thin. $3,586 says you read about saturation diving the minute it ends and come away amazed that anyone does it for a living.
What works: The tension is relentless and clear, and Woody Harrelson brings warmth and calm to the diver running the rescue from the bell.
What doesn’t: The characters stay thin, and anyone who saw the 2019 documentary already knows every beat of how it goes.
Who it’s for: People who love true survival stories told straight, with no Hollywood padding.
Spoilers
By the time David reaches Chris, his air has been gone for nearly half an hour, and the crew in the bell fear they’re too late. Then Chris wakes up and starts talking, and an epilogue says the real Chris Lemons fully recovered and all three went back to finish the job.
Based on a true story from the North Sea. Chris Lemons (Finn Cole) is a saturation diver on a three-person team with Duncan Allcock (Woody Harrelson) and David Yuasa (Simu Liu). They spend the whole rotation living in pressurized chambers aboard a support ship, then ride a diving bell down to the seafloor to repair gas pipelines. On one job, Chris and David head out to work while Duncan stays in the bell, running their air, power and comms. Up top, Captain Andre Jenson (Cliff Curtis) is dealing with rough seas. Then the ship's positioning system fails. Alex Parkinson directs, after co-directing the 2019 documentary. Ninety-three minutes, every breath counts.
Anyone who has waited by the phone for someone working far from home. This one is for you.
| Woody Harrelson | Duncan Allcock |
| Simu Liu | David Yuasa |
| Finn Cole | Chris Lemons |
| Cliff Curtis | Captain Andre Jenson |
| Mark Bonnar | Craig |
| MyAnna Buring | Hanna |
| Bobby Rainsbury | Morag |
| Josef Altin | Mike |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 19 October 2026 DataBot +520 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $24.8M; Domestic box office $21.1M; Opening weekend $7.9M; Profit / loss (est.) -$23.3M; Rotten Tomatoes 79%; CinemaScore B+; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 79% (134 reviews); Metacritic 65 / 100; Rotten Tomatoes audience 91% (1,000+ verified ratings); CinemaScore B+; IMDb users 6.6 / 10 (39,517 votes); movie.guru score 6.4.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 19 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.