'Apollo 18' is one of many, many found footage films that have come to be since the success of 'The Blair Witch Project' over a decade ago. In general, I find most of them to be pretty good. When compared to the others in it's genre, this one lacks a little.
This particular film takes place shortly after Apollo 17 several decades ago. The film tries to play this off as a mission that NASA didn't want us to know about. However, I feel there's no way that NASA could launch a space shuttle without Americans knowing about it because they make a lot of loud noise. If there was an Apollo 18 I'm sure the government would have told us about it but made a cover story to hide what they were really doing.
I found the aliens to be awkward at best, they were moon rocks. At certain points the rocks turn into these crab-like creatures that make people go crazy. I thought it was creative but silly at the same time.
During the mission, the two astronauts encounter a Russian space vehicle as well as a dead Russian cosmonaut by a crater. Of course, one of the astronauts is curious so he goes to discover the crater causing the whole alien rocks attack to start.
My problem, I just didn't buy into the idea. I couldn't get myself to believe that this could have possibly happened. At the end when they told us that some of these rocks were returned to earth and were now missing I understood the idea but found it silly. It was supposed to be a horror film of sorts but I was never scared. I never even jumped.
The film is entertaining though. The development of the astronaut's importance to his family and the heartbreak I felt when I learned he was expendable and NASA wouldn't allow him to return to earth to his family was done well. I don't know if there is this kind of corruption in the government but if there is it's harsh. I don't find anyone expendable.
This film is a good watch. My recommendation is to rent it.
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