Review of Apollo 18 (2011) by Tyler R — 24 Nov 2012
Apollo 18 is the story of astronauts going to the moon and they get attacked by weird space crab things and boom, that's the plot. It's also presented in the found footage perspective and by now I think it's time the found footage genre just take a 20 year hiatus.
It's been overused since Paranormal Activity made it cool again and it just needs to die. The thing I hate about the footage in this film is that they try to pass it off as real. We all know it's just for the movie, but the director comes straight out and says "Oh yeah, it's real stuff.
I don't have a logical explanation for how I recovered it from the moon, but it's real." The film is also very predictable. It sets up for a fake scare, nothing happens, then a really cheesy "scare" will happen.
It's been done before. The characters in this movie have no point other than to be the meal for the things attacking them. They aren't relatable, there was no reason to want them to live, and they were just boring.
When stuff is happening and the guys are being attacked, most of the time the camera just shows static and all we hear are the actors trying to provide genuine yells of terror even though they couldn't act to save their lives.
I also didn't like the ending. It was just a big anti-climax considering the film tries to make it seem like the Moon is the most dangerous place ever. It's nothing new and it's just a boring, generic movie.
This review of Apollo 18 (2011) was written by Tyler R on 24 Nov 2012.
Apollo 18 has generally received negative reviews.
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