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Alexis Johnson and Chadwick Hopson at an event for The Last Descent (2016)

Landon Henneman at an event for The Last Descent (2016)

Chadwick Hopson

Alexis Johnson

Landon Henneman

Isaac Halasima

After entering an unexplored cave, John Jones gets stuck in a 150-foot-deep hole.

The Last Descent

So let&apos;s get this out of the way: it&apos;s not a high-quality movie. So don&apos;t watch it if you&apos;re interested in skillful filmmaking. Acting not great, writing not great, etc.

What it *is* is the only available cinematic retelling of the Nutty Putty Cave tragedy. So if you&apos;re interested in that sort of thing, you probably want to watch it. It helped me get the human element in this instead of just being horrified by online diagrams of a guy stuck forever upside down in a hole.

I consider myself a mini-expert on the event after having read everything I can find on it. There are inaccuracies in this movie, important details they left out on purpose, lots of romanticizing (probably for the sake of the surviving family), a ton of sappy dream sequence filler as an artistic liberty, an inordinate focus on John&apos;s courtship with his wife, and they don&apos;t even show his death from a third-person POV and the closing off of the cave. They totally gloss over the death part and don&apos;t even show the aftermath.

In the end this feels like a B movie commissioned by his friends as a gift to his surviving family, so they can memorialize him in a touching light. And I get that, and it&apos;s very sweet.

But if you&apos;re a Nutty Putty armchair scholar, you probably wanted something with more substance and less fluff.

In 2009, John Jones explored an un-mapped section of the famous Nutty Putty Cave. After becoming stuck in a hole 18 inches wide and 150 feet under ground, rescue crews worked frantically and heroically to free him to get him home to his loving wife Emily. This is the story inspired by not only the incident at Nutty Putty, but by the way John lived his entire life.

Official Trailer

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So let's get this out of the way: it's not a high-quality movie. So don't watch it if you're interested in skillful filmmaking. Acting not great, writing not great, etc.

What it *is* is the only available cinematic retelling of the Nutty Putty Cave tragedy. So if you're interested in that sort of thing, you probably want to watch it. It helped me get the human element in this instead of just being horrified by online diagrams of a guy stuck forever upside down in a hole.

I consider myself a mini-expert on the event after having read everything I can find on it. There are inaccuracies in this movie, important details they left out on purpose, lots of romanticizing (probably for the sake of the surviving family), a ton of sappy dream sequence filler as an artistic liberty, an inordinate focus on John's courtship with his wife, and they don't even show his death from a third-person POV and the closing off of the cave. They totally gloss over the death part and don't even show the aftermath.

In the end this feels like a B movie commissioned by his friends as a gift to his surviving family, so they can memorialize him in a touching light. And I get that, and it's very sweet.

But if you're a Nutty Putty armchair scholar, you probably wanted something with more substance and less fluff.

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