Too many fans seem to be blown away

The greatest movie ever made..!

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

So this wasn't as bad as I thought it may be nor was it anything particularly exceptional. I'm admittedly not a huge horror found footage fan. It's been overdone and there are few stand outs. This actually had a very interesting premise but a poor follow through. So if you're a found footage fan than it's definitely worth a watch. But there are far superior sci-fi horror films instead. The absolute king of the mountain would be "Alien".

I don't know what to make of this film, except to say that it may be the silliest excuse for a sci-fiction/horror movie ever cobbled together. I got the feeling while I was watching it that the flick was made solely as a vehicle to showcase the three leads, and nothing else. In truth, I have never seen these guys in anything before.The film is a hash-fest of mistakes and blunders. I can't understand how they could make this, a science fiction movie, and yet do so little research so that they could get things right. The Apollo Program information isn't exactly classified.And then we get to the monsters: giant, anaerobic spiders with the ability to morph themselves into rocks, even though there isn't any evolutionary reason for them to possess this ability. They're just there, and that's that. I think it would fairly easy to create a much better monster.And then there is the fact that the spiders tore the Russian flag to bits, and later did the same to the U.S. flag. What, are the Moon creatures fascists who hate both nations?

Apollo 18 (2011): Dir: Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego / Cast: Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen, Ryan Robbins, Andrew Airlie, Michael Kopsa: This is pretty much as low as a film can get for a horror film payoff. It is a pathetic piece of trash devoid of cinematic value. Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen and Ryan Robbins are shot into space where they find some troublesome rocks that turns into spider like creatures. They discover a Russian spacecraft where tragedy has already struck. And all is left is for these three human targets to get killed. What is truly disturbing here is the ugly visions of the American NASA. In Apollo 13 they did everything possible to bring back three lives that were caught in space. Their loved ones wait patiently in hopes of a safe return and that film delivered triumphantly. Not so in this junk. We have a captain who becomes infected by some creature substance. We have a father and husband who will never see his family again. We have another fellow whose final scenes regard crashing. They are given the "you did a great service for their country" bullshit that would never happen in reality. Only in pathetic space horror films can American government be made more repulsive. Director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego can be credited for taking a relatively low budget and making it look larger than life but its purpose is just a plain stupid excuse for a faulty horror film that contains perhaps the worst ending for any film all year. My recommendation is to watch the wonderful Apollo 13 where the astronauts were cared for, and toss this horror film is a trash compactor. Score: 2 / 10

The movie had potential but the camera work throughout the movie was distracting. I understand that the camera work was on purpose but it was just too much distortion to make it easy to follow. Not the same as the "lost footage" from The Blair Witch Project. The concept was sound, though. With more mainstream camera work it would have been more entertaining. Still, I liked it. The actors certainly held the movie together. Spoiler alert: They did a good job acting the slow deterioration into madness. Aliens, paranoia, and secrets. A cool mix! The idea of the plot taking place on the moon was adhered to throughout the movie. I almost felt claustrophobic watching it!