yamurbina From the first minute this is just boring nonsense. It is another found footage film, similar to the ones where a group of friends go on a trip and something unexpected happens. Well, in this case they happen to go to the moon... Everything is cheap and cheesy, the member who is really brave and starts exploring the area risking his life, the distortion effects, the editing and I could go on and on.The moon set was good, it looked real. Sadly, they wasted it with a very bad and boring film.

cinmariechamb-62988 All I can say that this was 2 hours of my life that I will never get back. The premise was somewhat intriguing going in. The reality was anything but. To continue to go with the "classified footage that was found" story, when the capsule burned up on re-entry was completely ludicrous. I nearly walked out, but stayed because I paid to see it. I wish that I had walked out.

gpeltz Apollo 18 (2011) Directed by Gonzalo Lopez Gallego, and written by Brian Miller, Is a clever concept, A mocumentary about the last unreported Lunar landing. Spoiler Alert ahead, I Intend to talk about the film, What I liked; It very much captured the technology of the period, the film ratio was pure period nostalgia. Did we detect Super 8 on some of the home movies? Nice attention to detail. All the footage at the start mimicked the images we recall, they were uncannily set up in the studio, so as to intimate that the original footage we recall, might have thus been staged as well, but I digress.No, there is a far more sinister plot about, The movie goes to great length to introduce us to the three Astronauts chosen for this top secret mission, Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen and Ryan Robbins play Ben, Nate and John. Good old, all American Team players. Ben and Nate would land on the Moon, and John would orbit in the return module. By the time we get to the first, "Wawazat?" The movie was already in decline.OK, there was some degree of originality in the nature of the threat. Here's that spoiler alert, Keyword; Moonrocks. A mineral,slash Biological organism that wants the moon for its own. For an alien race, it seemed to understand human biology, enough to invade and infect a person, Ben is infected, Nate won't abandon him. It's all a DOD cover up. And now we know why we don;t go to the Moon anymore.Worse yet, there may be many of these phony Rock impersonators running amok down here on Mother Earth. Downside of this movie; Standard Sci fi cliché's take one; Electronic surveillance cameras will go all static rather then reveal the monsters appearance.In truth, the monster here never fully reveals itself nor it's motive; Sometimes its just a pointy rock, other times it seems like a biological parasite, and to top off the confusion, It leaves rather odd looking footprints. So how does this film rate, Fair to average, a clever idea pushed further than they knew what to do with. Seven out of Ten "Moonrock" stones, I mean Stars.

brian_m_hass "Apollo 18" is a science fiction/horror film which depicts a top-secret Apollo mission to the moon during the early 1970's. The film is presented in a mock-documentary format, using footage which was designed to appear as old archived NASA footage from the Apollo mission.The film has a number of things in its favor. The footage of the moon landing is fairly realistic-looking, making it relatively easy for members of the audience to suspend their belief for the duration of the movie. The cast consists of relatively unknown actors who provide decent performances during the movie. The film provides a number of genuinely creepy moments as well as enough cliffhanger moments to keep members of the audience on the edge of their seats.The film does have a few logic flaws. Since the film was presented in a mock-documentary format, one has to wonder how the footage from this mission was supposedly recovered when the spacecraft and crew supposedly failed to return to Earth. One also has to wonder why members of the public were not surprised by an unannounced nighttime launch of a Saturn V rocket."Apollo 18" is not a perfect film. It falls short of being as riveting as Ron Howard's film, "Apollo 13." However, "Apollo 18" is still an entertaining "what if" film about a fictional top-secret Apollo mission. The film is definitely worth seeing and would make a good entry for those showing horror movies on Halloween night.