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Law enforcement officers stand in formation along Lake Street near Hiawatha Avenue in Minneapolis as fires burn after a night of unrest and protests on Friday, May 29, 2020. (David Joles/Star Tribune via AP, File)People loot and burn an Office Depot store Friday, May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis, following the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

People loot and burn an Office Depot store Friday, May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis, following the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)Tear gas fills the air after Denver Police fired canisters on Saturday, May 30, 2020, during a protest outside the state capitol over the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)Tear gas fills the air after Denver Police fired canisters on Saturday, May 30, 2020, during a protest outside the state capitol over the death of George Floyd. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

It’s been 5 years since the murder of George Floyd. What followed was protest and racial reckoning across the country and around the world, as well as a backlash that began to grow against the movement, which the country is still grappling with today.Five years later, the Justice Department under President Donald Trump has

with Minneapolis and Louisville, Kentucky, to reform their police departments.

“It’s a symbolic nod from the state to police departments around the nation that they can continue discriminating and abusing Black people without worry,” the Movement for Black Lives said in remarks exclusive to The Associated Press. “So while they attempt to rollback our wins and erase our history, we will continue to care for one another ... so we can keep working toward our vision of freedom and liberation that this administration fears.”The seas were particularly rough that day, with winds up to 35 knots, common for the North Sea but also not what one might call safe. Chris and Dave were in the middle of their work when they heard the urgent calls to abort: The dynamic positioning system in the support vessel above had failed and they were in drift. Chris scrambled to maneuver out of the pipeline corridors, but his umbilical got caught. For a brief, awful moment he’s the anchor to the ship above, but soon enough the cord snapped, and he was thrown back to the ocean floor in pitch black with no coms, no heat and very little hope for survival. News articles about the incident clock his backup oxygen supply as being closer to five or six minutes – perhaps the movie wanted to give the audience a little buffer.

If this sounds at all familiar, it may be because it was made into a documentary, also called “Last Breath” and released in 2019. While it was well-received, some true stories are just too gripping to exist solely in that form. It’s not exactly a surprise that a narrative film was made as well. There’s a good track record of recent complimentary adaptations — think Ron Howard’s “13 Lives” and “The Rescue” about the Thai boys soccer team stuck in the cave.This one was made by Alex Parkinson, the same director who co-directed the doc, and it’s a well-executed narrative interpretation that doesn’t get in its own way with padding. Harrelson gets to be the wise mentor who really doesn’t want to lose someone on his last mission. Liu gets to flex his action muscles (literally and figuratively) in a modest but solid role. And they don’t go out of their way to shoehorn in a villain — this is just a group of people trying their best to save a life.

The only real problem, if one can even call it that, is that it’s so short. The film doesn’t take liberties with stretching out the timeline much at all and after 93 minutes, the whole thing is over. It feels strange to want a movie to be longer, but in the case of “Last Breath” I was both desperate for it to end, for anxiety reasons, and also wanting more.“Last Breath,” a Focus Features release in theaters Friday, is rated PG-13 Motion Picture Association for “brief strong language.” Running time: 93 minutes. Three stars out of four.