APOLLO 18 (2011)
This one is a found
footage film (a format I pretty much hate) but lately there have been a few
that use some (or all) of this format that have turned out pretty good. APOLLO
18 is about the US discovering that the Soviet Union had possibly been planning
to monitor the US and the moon was definitely part of their evil plan. When
NASA arrives 2 astronauts discover the Soviets were there and they were jacked
up. I don’t want to give too much away about this movie but there are
definitely some cool effects (make up work) and creatures from what we do see
in the really crappy attempt at making this film look authentic. I mean there
are Grindhouse films less grainy than this.
What we do get is some
superb acting and if you can wade through the over written first half of the
movie the second half delivers a pretty nice payoff. Nothing about this movie
is spectacular but it has some quality elements that quite frankly I really
didn’t expect.
Warren Christie (ALPHA’s,
ARROW) delivers and the rest of the very small cast was actually trying. For
something a little different I can recommend APOLLO 18, but it is probably not
part of your HALLOWEEN night or month line up unless you have all of the really
epic stuff out of the way or are a huge fan of found footage space horror. I do
wish there were not so many choppy portions of this film. It almost makes you
feel like your cable is going out or you got a really scratchy DVD.
GRAPHICS ARE THE PROPERTY
OF DIMENSION
FILMS AND ARE USED FOR REVIEW PURPOSES
ONLY.
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