Review: Apollo 18
2 stars.
“Apollo 18” follows three astronauts—Commander Nathan Walker (Lloyd Owen), Lt. Col. John Grey (Ryan Robbins) and Capt. Benjamin Anderson (Warren Christie)—as they set out on the Apollo 18 mission. Once on the moon, the team loses transmission with Houston, and all havoc breaks loose as Walker and Anderson discover an abandoned Russian ship and a dead cosmonaut. The movie attempts to reenact the story lines of supernatural thrillers such as “Paranormal Activity” and “The Last Exorcism,” but fails. All action occurred in the last 20 minutes. The spider aliens did not create an overall sense of fear that most alien movies have successfully created in the past. All sense of excitement was lost when there was a crescendo in the music and a rock moved from side to side. Unlike other “real life” movies, “Apollo 18” went overboard by trying to make the footage look like it was filmed in space. The fuzzy pictures were thoroughly annoying and detracted from what little story line there was.
If you like this, check out “Paranormal Activity.”
