DVDs & Films Forum - Apollo 18 - Page 1

An intruiging concept this one. A found footage movie (Blair Witch, Cloverfield, Paranormal Activity), but set in the solitude of space.

Apollo missions 18-20 are cancelled due to budgetary restrictions (ring a bell?) and Apollo 17 is hailed as the mission's swansong. However, 18 is reinstated and 3 astronauts are sent on a highly classified mission under the DoD's authority for one last, last, absolutely the last time. Honest. The mission involves placing transmitters at strategic positions near the south pole to act as a 'early warning system' if those damn Ruskies decide to launch any nukes.

Things start to get mackerely when one of the little moon rocks they've collected is found on the floor of the LEM (Lunar Excursion Module), outside of its little baggie. The mission continues, and while placing another transmitter, one of the astronauts discovers footprints that don't match theirs, leading to a large crater, in which is sitting an abandoned russian LEM. Shortly after, they find the conmonaut. So far, so trailer.

Sadly, apart from the jump shots, of which I counted 3, there's not a lot to know other that what you've been told in the previews. The film is done very well, shot enirely on hand-held or wall-mounted cameras. The feeling of isolation and abandonment as they lose comms is very well portrayed, and the gradual revelation of the 'bad guys' is done so's not not make the reality ridiculous

SPOILER:
Some Moon rocks are actually lunar-parasitic insectsCan't go higher than 7/10. It'd be higher but the movie ends on one of the biggest movie plot-holes ever created

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