In the wake of such documentary style films as Blair Witch, Paranormal Activity, Cloverfield, and Fourth Kind, Apollo 18 is the newest of this genre of .found footage. type movies. It is well done and makes you question the role of Nasa in the space race between the two super power countries, the USA and the Ussr. It might not have brought enough thrills to be worth the ticket price on the big screen, but on Blu-ray the movie manages to create a tense atmosphere that gives a jump or two to keep the audience watching. Warren Christie, who plays Captain Benjamin Anderson, and Lloyd Owens, who plays Commander Nathan Walker, carry the entire film on their shoulders.
- 12/29/2011
- by Dana Rae
- Monsters and Critics
Director: Gonzalo López-Gallego.
Writers: Brian Miller (screenplay) and Cory Goodman.
Cast: Warren Christie, Ryan Robbins and Ali Liebert
When in space, no one wants to hear you scream. That cannot be any truer with Apollo 18, a reasonably effective movie thriller that presents a what-if scenario of Nasa's "final" mission to the moon. Production-wise, the film reel effect is successful in conveying a dated product. And it also works in the favour of creating an engrossing product where, buried in the static and blips, there may be a terror in their midst.
Although watching the mission is a slow build, that’s done on purpose. A good portion of the footage audiences see is being transmitted back to mission control to record. But with radio transmissions not being instantaneous, can anyone imagine what waiting for a response from a communication from the Earth to the Moon and back must have been like?...
Writers: Brian Miller (screenplay) and Cory Goodman.
Cast: Warren Christie, Ryan Robbins and Ali Liebert
When in space, no one wants to hear you scream. That cannot be any truer with Apollo 18, a reasonably effective movie thriller that presents a what-if scenario of Nasa's "final" mission to the moon. Production-wise, the film reel effect is successful in conveying a dated product. And it also works in the favour of creating an engrossing product where, buried in the static and blips, there may be a terror in their midst.
Although watching the mission is a slow build, that’s done on purpose. A good portion of the footage audiences see is being transmitted back to mission control to record. But with radio transmissions not being instantaneous, can anyone imagine what waiting for a response from a communication from the Earth to the Moon and back must have been like?...
- 12/11/2011
- by noreply@blogger.com (Ed Sum)
- 28 Days Later Analysis
On a classified mission to the moon, tasked with planting detectors as part of an early warning system for Icbm attacks on the USA, cosmonauts Commander Nathan Walker and Captain Benjamin Anderson depart Freedom to land the lunar module Liberty on the moon’s surface.
Unable to sleep and the subject of certain mysterious goings on, their suspicions are ultimately aroused when they discover the corpse of a Russian cosmonaut while on routine expedition. Sensing that there is more to their assignment than first perceived, Nate and Ben must face the very real possibility that they are not in fact alone on the moon.
Considering the sheer ineptitude of the advertising campaign – noteworthy only for the new low it constituted in the industry’s use of photoshop – you could be forgiven for writing Apollo 18 off as a bit of a waste of time. But if every movie was judged...
Unable to sleep and the subject of certain mysterious goings on, their suspicions are ultimately aroused when they discover the corpse of a Russian cosmonaut while on routine expedition. Sensing that there is more to their assignment than first perceived, Nate and Ben must face the very real possibility that they are not in fact alone on the moon.
Considering the sheer ineptitude of the advertising campaign – noteworthy only for the new low it constituted in the industry’s use of photoshop – you could be forgiven for writing Apollo 18 off as a bit of a waste of time. But if every movie was judged...
- 9/5/2011
- by Steven Neish
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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