Escape from the Deep - Bis zum letzten Atemzug

Every summer, as sure as there will be lazy days at the beach, there will undoubtedly be a shark movie. This year sees a couple, including The Last Breath. Every shark movie since 1975 owes a bucket of chum to Jaws. Whether intentional or not, every movie where a dorsal breaks the surface pays homage to the original fish tale. Jaws is sublime, and its effectiveness lies more in the interest of characterization than waiting for a mechanical monster to pop up. The flaw in most shark films post-Jaws is uninteresting characters and the emphasis on cheap thrills. The Last Breath rides this flaccid wave. The film merely treads water enough to remind audiences that they could instead watch Jaws.

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When the long-hidden wreck of the battleship "USS Charlotte" is discovered, it proves a must-explore opportunity for a visiting collection of erstwhile college students. Initially, "Noah" (Jack Parr) isn't keen on taking them all, but when he discovers that his local bar-owning mate "Levi" (Julian Sands) is $36k in the hole, he teases the the cash from the arrogant ass that is "Brett" (Alexander Arnold) and so down they go. Initially, all goes well enough but you have to remember that a battleship is a large construction with loads of corridors, ladders, portholes and especially with this one - rust. As this entitled and hungover bunch of travellers enter deeper into the infrastructure, they also meet a problem a little more menacing. Sharks like it down there too, and they are hungry for some rubbery frat sandwiches. What with a maze of collapsing ironworks, the odd dead body and now these marauding man/woman eating fish, we are set for quite an underwater adventure full of squealing and screaming with acting and dialogue that had me wanting to sign up for my local adopt-an-elasmobranch society. The photography works quite well and it does generate a little tension, but the rest of it just hammy comic book stuff where the cast deserve all the chewing they get. The sparingly featured Julian Sands must have fancied a free holiday somewhere warm, else he had a tax bill to settle - otherwise this is entirely forgettable fayre that we've all seen before and won't need to see again. Perhaps it should have been entitled "The Last Gasp"?

Another movie about dumb, smart people. At every turn, I turn into that black guy in the theater that's yelling "oh, come on!" Or "Get the f**k outta here!". Because one of these "geniuses" does something so stupid that it makes absolutely no sense. There's a couple people in this movie that from the beginning. I just kept thinking oh I hope they get eaten. Now. It's up to three. But, one down.

Personally, I think it's bad writing when somebody does absolutely everything right. Just as I believe it's bad writing when everybody does everything absolutely wrong. It's not realistic. I understand panicking under stressful situations but these characters did stupid stuff before they got into the situation. Which only complicated the situation it was just so predictively dumb.

A ship during the world war 2 sinks and decades later, it is found in the present day Noah and old Levi. They are happy about the fortune they are going to make after their discovery. They are accompanied by Noah's old friends for a dive to the shipwreck. Sounds adventurous? No. Add sharks, plural and it immediately becomes adventurous. With the human characters making enough dumb choices and the lazy sharks allowing them to, who will eventually survive the sharks attack, forms rest of the story.

The sharks are entirely CGI and there is nothing much fun about them. Those scenes, be it the build up or the actual scene, they remain bland throughout. The typecasted characters, a couple of brats, the typical female lead, her ex who is humiliated by the brats and the fact that they are all easy baits. Despite the film starting off with a flashback and jumping into present day, it's two different set of characters and before getting used to any of them, the story moves forward with the bunch of friends joining and none of them are worth rooting for. With the short runtime and enough kills, The Last Breath still doesn't make the cut for a passable shark film.

I honestly don't understand the low rating for this movie, of course it will not win any oscars but the movie does not deserve a 4.6 rating.

There is no bad CG in this movie, the shark is really well made and does not look fake like what one hundred percent asylum movies do.

Not sure what the budget for this movie was but its very well made. Of course most of the actors are unknown but they do a great job.

You get the spoiled rich kid, and female doctor student, a bit of drama but not too much and a great design for terror.

The old military ship is perfect with the shark moving around and they are all trapped.

All in all this movie deserves a higher rating and is well worth a rental at least its a very enjoyable shark movie.