Director - Gonzalo López-Gallego
1972 was the last time mankind walked on the moon, or so we are lead to believe.
in 2011, 84 hours of footage was uploaded to a website, of which 90 minutes have been edited into 'Apollo 18'
It turns out, from the footage, that in 1974, three astronaut's, Ben (Warren Christie), Nate (Llyod Owen) & John (Ryan Robbins) were sent up to the moon on one last mission. The public were told the ship going up was unmanned. The Astronaut's were blasted out and made their way to the big dry rock that revolves our plant and touched down on the southern pole. they put out the motion sensor camera's they had been told to put up by mission control (to document their two days on the moon) and then set about their mission, which was to set up some transmitters, to which the two men on the moon and the other still floating in orbit monitoring thought were to spy on the Russians. Once the transmitters are in place they scout the area and collect more rock samples for the big wigs back home at NASA, then strange things start to happen and the two men on that Baron rock started to wonder if they were alone.
Apollo 18 is yet another Cam Film, which of course is the craze these days (Paranormal Activity, Rec etc) but yet again, I have not been left disappointed. Apollo 18 looks authentic, the film, clothes hair, and the moon scenes are like watching when Armstrong was bouncing around up there. grainy, dark, grey and I like that in this film. for it to be realistic, it needed that for it to work. I also like the claustrophobic feeling that the film oozes, the base of the real fear that this film wants you to feel, 'your in a six by eight metal box, trapped, and if you go outside, you wont be able to breathe...'
The acting isn't the greatest Ive seen, but its enough for the film to be convincing. I do feel though that allot of people may be left a little disappointed by Apollo 18, as you don't really see anything, like Blair Witch, some people wont be scared and will probably find the feature boring. Overall I enjoyed this picture, I found it well made and quite original and look forward to seeing it again.
As for the general masses, I have a feeling Apollo 18 will be a 'Marmite' film.
7/10
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