The actor and his co-stars tell Newsweek about the challenges of playing real-life commercial divers on a high stakes mission.

“Last Breath” continues an ongoing trend of fictionalized remakes of the events covered in a prior documentary. This movie uses the 2019 documentary of the same name as its basis. Both films were directed by Alex Parkinson, who uses real-life footage of the people involved during the closing credits of this fictionalized version.

"Last Breath" delivers every incident with such specificity that it's like a cinematic piece of journalism. Yet it leaves you with a minor tingle of the uncanny.

A routine deep-sea diving mission in the North Sea goes terribly wrong when a young diver is stranded some 300 feet below the surface in the new film “Last Breath.” His umbilical cable has severed. The support vessel above is aimlessly drifting away from the site through violent,

Alex Parkinson's true-life adventure thriller, based on his 2019 documentary, recounts the efforts to rescue a saturation diver trapped hundreds of feet below the water's surface.

Probably not, but that's what saturation divers -- who live in pressurized chambers for weeks while working deep below the ocean surface -- do every time they take an assignment, as deftly depicted in Last Breath,