Review – Apollo 18

I wonder how many other movie reviewers have already called this Apollo 13 meets Paranormal Activity. The “found footage” element of this picture is particularly galling, because supposedly it was shot by the crew of a secret post-Apollo-17 mission to the Moon. And yet when the mission runs afoul of vicious rock spider alien things, somehow all the footage left behind in the abandoned 16 mm cameras manages to find its way across the gulf of space and back to Earth where it gets cut into this masterpiece. That’s stupid even by the loose standards of the sub-genre. It has a good booga-booga or two, but otherwise the only interesting part of the whole picture was getting a glimpse of what a Soviet lunar lander looked like. Mildly amusing