Apollo 18 (2011)

I really hate that I don’t hate this movie. Scoring a 25% on Rotten Tomatoes and being the causes of boredom by many-a-people, I don’t know why I don’t hate this movie. This movie should have been boring, poorly-acted, and a complete pile of trash, like everyone said it was. But still, I did not find this movie to be terrible. Filmed in the faux-documentary style of shaky-cam, this film follows three astronauts (oddly well-played by Warren Christi, Ryan Robbins, and actually wonderfully by Lloyd Owen) as they fly to the moon in a secret government mission that was never talked about by the government. As we sludge through the first forty or so minutes of this film, nothing happened, nothing was revealed, and I was bored out of my mind. Then, at around the half-way mark (this movie is really short), the film started to pick up. We saw the true reason this was a classified mission, and we see some really good acting on Lloyd Owen’s part. It was almost if the first half of the film was directed by Oren Peli, who directed the first and most boring (granted, I haven’t seen the third one yet) Paranormal Activity, and the second one was directed by whoever directed the second one, because it got tense, it got interesting, and I actually did have a very good time watching it. As found-footage movies go, Cloverfield is still on the top, but there are a lot of worse movies you can go than Apollo 18. NOTE: I first heard about this movie when it was meant to be released in April, and I was dying to see it. It looked amazing, like Cloverfield in space. How would that not be awesome? But, after it was pushed back, and it was not released for critics, that made me sad, and that is why I did not see this movie in theaters like I planned.
7.5/10