Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Hello once again and welcome back to another episode of Movie Deputy Reviews where we are bringing you the in depth interrogations of movies for their plot and their content.
[00:00:13] I am the deputy of Movie Deputy and I am so happy to be here talking to you today. Yes, I'm back.
[00:00:21] I apologize, I didn't get around to an episode for yesterday. Just a bunch of stuff going on with my leg and stuff like that. So that's still, I've got a bit of healing yet to do on that. So some days are a little easier than others. But I will be here for sure for today and I as tomorrow. I've already got the movie lined up that I'm doing for then that you will, you'll be hearing from me again then.
[00:00:46] And so it's kind of a little bit of an interesting thing. We're going to be talking about two movies with the same title and it's the same story. But don't get confused. The one we are talking about Today is the 2019 documentary. And then the one we are talking about tomorrow is the theatrical release of the movie of the same story.
[00:01:09] And though it may be the same story, the it is drastically different. Like Night and Day. Like sometimes you're wondering if they're even telling the same story. I mean obviously they are.
[00:01:22] But the one you get with the documentary, you get the authenticity of it. And if you've listened to Moby Deputy for very long, you know, I usually, I'm not the biggest fan of the documentaries because a lot of times they're just kind of drawn out and they're just, they're just slow and it's just hard to follow and it's honestly kind of hard to keep attention if you're used to like the high action Hollywood.
[00:01:51] And I'm not saying that the high action Hollywood is all that there is, but it's easier to pay attention to something when there's something that's kind of continuing the story and what's going on.
[00:02:02] This is one of those documentaries though that does not have that problem, problem at all. The authenticity that you have here and the fact that it utilizes so much of the footage of what happened when this happened.
[00:02:17] But it's all about these divers and these deep sea divers are going down in the North Sea and in order to do their job they have to go down and basically a giant pressurized canister because of the atmospheres underwater. It's like you're talking multiple hundreds of times the atmosphere of what we have on the surface. And so they have to Be at a pressurized situation to so it doesn't affect their health in a negative way.
[00:02:48] Well, on this, this the main diver that this is about. Sorry, my brain just almost blanked on his name. His name is Chris Lemons. Now mind you, he is not the only one that this story is about, but he is the main diver that if you're at all familiar with this, with the story, then you're going to kind of get an idea. And it would probably help if I give you the title. I mean going to be talking about Last Breath. And I've been saying a couple of like, even to my friends and stuff like that and even to my sister. It's like, like the final breath. Last breath.
[00:03:23] Sorry, crazy kitty cats here.
[00:03:26] But yeah, the title is Last Breath and the documentary actually came out in 2019.
[00:03:32] But this is like I said, this is the story of Chris Lemons. But we don't just hear from Chris. We hear from the rest of the crew. We hear from his family. We hear from.
[00:03:41] From just pretty much everybody that was actually involved with this. And we get to see the actual submersible, the giant tank that he was pressurized that went down into the water. And with all of that so we, you. It. It gives you a much more in depth. It's not Hollywood side of the story. It's what actually happened. And honestly with seeing this and was seeing the movie that like I said this, they're drastically different even though they're the same story. So this is one.
[00:04:10] If you have not seen the movie yet, I highly recommend watching the documentary first.
[00:04:17] If you have already seen the movie and if you thought it was good, great. If you thought it was excellent, great. If you thought it was just subpar, you know, that's great too. I. Regardless of what you thought of the original movie, you really should go back and watch this because the movie is going to make a lot more sense because they left a lot out. I'm not gonna spoil anything. You know me, no spoilers ever. But they left a lot of it out.
[00:04:45] And. But this main thing that happened and it's kind of being regarded as a miracle. Kind of like that kid that fell through the ice. It was a Angel Studios movie and he'd been basically declared dead. And then he kind of came back to life.
[00:04:59] Well, he was in the super cold water for a long time and then once his body got up to temperature, he got back, he was able to be resuscitated. But that's not what happens with Chris here. Not. Not Exactly.
[00:05:12] Chris was 300ft below the north Sea. And due to some stuff that, due to some storms and stuff up on the surface, he and he ended up getting separated from his umbilical. Now, a diving umbilical is very much like an umbilical on a baby. It is, it's your lifeline, it is your air, it is your, it's your vitals, it's everything you need. And mind you, that water is cold, so it even pumps heated water. Like, I don't know if you've ever watched Bering Sea gold or any of these, any of those types of stories on Discovery Channel, but the divers that go down under the Bering Sea and dredge for the gold and do all of this, they have to have warm water pumped into their suits. They don't freeze to death. And that's kind of a, it doesn't actually touch on that whole lot in this, but it kind of helps understand being what being separated from that umbilical means.
[00:06:08] And when that umbilical severed, Chris only had five minutes of oxygen left. Just five minutes. Five minutes. And so everybody on the surface and in the, in the tank thing, the pressure pressurization thing that they're in, they're all trying to scramble, scrambling on how can they get back to Chris and how can they try to rescue him?
[00:06:32] And the time is, we're watching the time countdown and that timer hit zero and they're thinking, okay, this just went from a rescue to a recovery. And you know me, like I said, no spoilers.
[00:06:44] Like I said, if you've seen, even seen the trailers for the theatrical movie, you kind of know where this is going to go. But I won't completely ruin that for you. But the saturation diving that's involved with this is just so intense. And the waters and the currents in the North Sea are so intense. What Chris does is he finds a place to put himself where he can be found or eventually recovered because he.
[00:07:10] His errors running out. And of course it's got to be, it's running through his mind. Worst case scenario, a model that I live in my everyday life with. And it's, it's corny admittedly, but I hope for the best, but I plan for the worst because you never completely know how a situation is going to go. So if you're preparing for the extremes on both ends of it, that kind of helps a little bit. But like I said, the clocks are ticking. So. So when that timer hit zero, like I said to everybody else, including Chris, they all thought this was going to be a Recovery instead of a rescue.
[00:07:48] Well, they didn't get to him for 20. I think it was 27 minutes.
[00:07:54] And so he was without oxygen in his suit for 22 minutes. Now, how is that survivable in all things that we understand?
[00:08:05] It's. It's not.
[00:08:07] There's just so many different things. But that's why I touched on that other Angel Studios movie when it came out a couple years ago. I, you know, as soon as I'm done talking about this, it will dawn on me of what the name of that movie was. But it's just not going to come back to me at the moment. So I apologize.
[00:08:24] I will say that this one, probably just because of some of the intense subject matter and it does have occasional strong language, that I am going to go ahead and give this movie a guilty rating, give the documentary a guilty rating. It's a very immersive approach. It's got actual footage, first hand accounts.
[00:08:43] It's very raw. So I should warn you that prior to doing this, it is extremely raw and it's just, it's brutal with the fact of the details and maybe a little bit too detailed at times, but it wraps up the story in a way that.
[00:09:05] How can I say this without giving it away?
[00:09:09] There are, there are definite pieces in here that the movie is missing.
[00:09:14] And so like I said, whether you see this before or after the other one, I highly recommend it.
[00:09:20] This one there. Okay. There are a few times where it kind of feels like it's running out the clock during some of these interviews and some of the narrative that it's doing, but it doesn't feel like it's really that drawn out. So that's at least from my perspective, it was able to keep my attention. And for a documentary that's saying something, at least with me.
[00:09:41] So I, like I said, I highly recommend this, score wise. You're probably wondering where I'm at on this.
[00:09:48] I really kind of debated. I was like, okay, low sevens. No, not, not quite because it's just not there. And a lot of documentaries like Fall in the Fives and sometimes even lower than that. Not that I'm trying to be that harsh on documentaries, but a lot of documentaries just fail to grip your attention unless it's something that you're really interested in. They're not like wide audience attention getters. But this one, there was enough to it that it was worth sticking around for. Now for both this one and the movie, don't worry, like I said, no spoilers. There's extras, like into the credits of what's kind of going on in their actual lives.
[00:10:29] So it's worth sticking around for. But score wise, I came in at this one at a 6.75 there. Like I said, there were a few flaws. Like I said, just a few parts maybe where it was drawn out and stuff a little bit. But the depth of the story that this goes into and the detailed accounts that you get from not only Chris, but you get it from his shipmates and just you get a feel of the work that they're actually going down and doing on these oil rigs that they're working on. I think I might left that out at the beginning. So my apologies on that. But like I said, it just goes into so much more on this. So if you've ever been interested in this story, if you knew about it when, back when it happened, or whether the movie, the theatrical release was the first you've ever heard of it.
[00:11:16] This one, I found this one actually on Amazon Prime Video.
[00:11:20] I don't know if it's available on any of the other streaming services at the moment, but. So that's where you can find that.
[00:11:27] If you want to know what I thought about the movie, the theatrical release that just came out, come back tomorrow and I'll be back soon. Bye.
