Apollo 18

2011 • 86 minutes

About this movie

Officially, Apollo 17, launched December 17th, 1972, was the last manned mission to the moon. But a year later, in December of 1973, two American astronauts were sent on a secret mission to the moon funded by the US Department of Defense. This is actual footage captured by the astronauts on that mission. While NASA denies its authenticity, others say it's the real reason we've never gone back to the moon.

Ratings and reviews

My title pretty much explains it all. The movie advances at a very slow pace and gives you an overall experience that is very much like Paranormal Activity and then bad crap happens on the planet. The trailer gives up the rest of the film.Like Paranormal, it pretty much serves you everything and leaves you with no real satisfactions. Like telling you 2 + 2 = 4, this answer is not only easily figured out but I gave you no satisfaction of answering the equation.

So the whole story is based on a secret DOD mission to the moon in the 1970s to place listening devices to track the Russians. Its one of those "found footage this really happened" flicks. First off, if this a top secret mission, why schedule a "secret" launch that can be seen and tracked? Wouldn't it make more sense to include this as a "science" experiment on a regular mission? Totally blows the premise. That and the "we're government funded alien bait". Dumb.

Great concept; bad movie. "Real" footage premise is lame and rather insulting to anyone with a brain - which is just everyone who would be drawn to this topic. Storyline is intriguing but dies amongst the poor directing, editing, and lack of plot development beyond the confines of the spacecraft. Do not waste your money.