As the underwater/shark movie revival continues, The Last Breath starts off with a brief Jaws-like World War II-set attack off the Virgin Islands and the sinking of a battleship, before shifting to modern-day explorers finding the sunken wreck; cue a group of blandly stereotypical old college friends diving to the boat and being picked off one-by-one by sharks and injuries...and that is about it. The underwater work - and there is plenty of it - is solid enough if repetitive, dialogue is relentlessly dreary, but the film does manage to present some quite interesting survival dilemmas and choices for the characters. However, with the first attack coming halfway through the movie and brief/swift jeopardy sequences, endless slowly swimming murky ship corridors is mostly not very gripping. You will not win any prizes for working out who will survive to the end in this below-average genre entry.
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