The job description professional diver doesnt do justice to what Chris Lemons did for a living.
Lemons and Yuasa would be the ones in the water.
Allock would be monitoring them from the deck.
Cole, Harrelson and Liu (from left) in ‘Last Breath’Mark Cassar/Focus Features
Even worse: the computer system that kept it locked above the targeted location went on the fritz.
Then Lemons umbilical cord snapped altogether, causing him to plummet back down into the darkness.
This new take shares both the docs name and one of its directors, Alex Parkinson.
Its both harrowing and jarring, as if someone slipped a dark-web snuff clip into a news report.
Imagine a pilot forChicago DiversorDeep-Sea Rescue 911,and youre not far off the mark.
(The Most Valuable Player award collectively goes to the underwater cinematography team, who outdo themselves here.)
Stiflingly so, in fact.
That IRL ending still reads as miraculous.
Yet the whole thing feels still feels starved for creative oxygen.
