‘Last Breath’ Review: Woody Harrelson’s Gripping Underwater Thriller Is All Surface and No Depth

‘Last Breath’ Review: Woody Harrelson’s Gripping Underwater Thriller Is All Surface and No Depth

To paraphrase and/or completely misquote Karl Marx: History repeats itself first as documentary, then as a mid-budget survival thriller. “Little Dieter Needs to Fly” was adapted into “Rescue Dawn.” “The Rescue” was adapted into “Thirteen Lives.” And now, in that strange tradition, an incident that was first expressed through interview testimony and harrowing surveillance footage has been smoothed into a simple but suspenseful genre exercise, as Alex Parkinson adapts his 2019…