Breath

Ahh great another IFC movie, recommended to me again by Amazon. A woman gets trapped in a hole, similar to what happened in Apocalypto to the main characters wife. She can't get out of the hole. So she flashbacks on memories of her life and what got her to this point in the first place. Similar to 127 hours. Nothing new here. No great performances. Seems like just a low budget survival movie with like 2 actors in the whole movie.

IFC.

4/10.

And IMDB has now made it so a review has to have 600 characters before it can be entered. I really don't expect that to last very long because people are sure to complain about it. But until that happens I guess we have to expect reviews to be long winded and sometimes about absolutely nothing to do with the show in question.

Lara is a geologist, and is studying a volcano. On finishing a days work, she comes down, is driving home and realizes she forgot her backpack. She returns, gets it and on the way down, the ground gives way, and she finds herself in a deep hole, and a badly injured leg. No one knows where she is, but she is skilled, and considering how little she had with her, it couldn't have been that far. She agonizes over her predicament, reflects on past decisions in her life, but really makes no stupid decisions in trying to get out. Some may fault her on trying to climb out, but unless one is a free climber, one never thinks a foot or hand hold is enough to be safe. Days go by. Rescuers are searching, but they say it is a huge area. In the hole, she is visited by a snake, one of the worst fakes ever. It is neither a great movie nor a stinker.

I do not usually pay attention to the 1 and 2 star reviews on IMDB as they are usually from people who rate a movie either a 1 or a 10 if they like or dislike but in this case they are spot on.

You can usually tell how bad a movie is going to be from the first 5-15 mins and within that time we have shaky camerawork that looks like it has been filmed on a Go-pro or I-phone; perhaps it was and the editing is atrocious as if it was being made by a film student, then again perhaps it was?

Then we have the directors obsession with long quadcopter shots of lava rocks for no apparent reason other than to play with his new DJI.

Add to this an utterly banal and unbelievable story with some shockingly bad scenes such as the girl swimming up through the cave when it is obvious it is filmed in front of a fish tank, it just looks so bad, cheap and nasty. Nothing happens in the movie and the dialogue is so atrocious I started to want to fast forward, which is something I rarely ever do.

The only reason I am giving this a 2 is for the music which was ok and James Cosmo who was obviously dropped into this snore-fest for movie poster cred but if you want to watch something more interesting I would suggest popping down to B&Q and spending your Netflix on a tin of Dulux and doing some DIY and watch it dry!

Try throwing your cell phone out of the hole...they will track it. Please.. I hope she doesn't drink her urine. At least she didn't have to cut off her arm like in 127 hours.

I saw it on amazon at night, and I totally immersed myself in the story. The title is beautiful, the earth breathes, the volcano, the daughter's illness, the meaning of the title is beautiful. James Cosmo is a great actor...