Movie Review - Apollo 18

Apollo 18 (2011)

Starring Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen, and Ryan Robbins

Directed by Gonzalo López-Gallego

Apollo 18 is yet another horror film of the found footage genre.  Here, we find out that after the seventeenth Apollo mission, NASA shut down the moon mission program.  Little did we in the public know that NASA sent an eighteenth mission to the moon only for the three astronauts on that fateful trek to discover alien life forms on the lunar surface.

Despite a few tense moments, even at 85 minutes, Apollo 18 overstays its welcome and fails to have any lasting impact.  It's not that the film is egregiously bad, but it simply isn't scary enough to merit the time spent watching it.  It's almost worse to neither be a good nor bad horror movie...stuck in the middle is sometimes more of a failure than being either great or heinous.  With that said, I'm not sure Apollo 18 is worthy of many more words written about it, so I think I'll end this review right here.

The RyMickey Rating:  C-