JamesG
09-05-2011, 10:25 PM
Movie Reviews: Apollo 18
Apollo 18 is sort of a Blair Witch Project on the moon.
Critics didn’t much care for The Blair Witch Project, either, giving it barely a passing grade. That’s mostly the case with the moon movie.
Robert Abele in the Los Angeles Times described it as:
“a low-key and unassuming film of rising tension rather than big scares or wild shocks.”
Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune, while noting that the film “contains only a wee handful of surprises,” nevertheless wrote that it amounts to:
“a break from the usual hyperbolic, down-your-throat brand of silly and derivative scare movies.”
Joel Brown in he Boston Globe called it:
“a low-budget thriller built on creative spare parts. … For most horror fans it will be kind of a snooze.”
Mike Hale in the New York Times did commend the filmmakers for recreating:
“the grainy, jumpy images that were miraculously beamed back to terrestrial televisions during the Apollo flights.”
He then remarked that in the end:
“All we get is the low-level tension of strange noises, flickering lights and shock cuts; when the monsters appear, they’re so sketchy, whether by design or from lack of budget, that you can’t believe you’ve waited around to see them.”
-IMDB News
Apollo 18 is sort of a Blair Witch Project on the moon.
Critics didn’t much care for The Blair Witch Project, either, giving it barely a passing grade. That’s mostly the case with the moon movie.
Robert Abele in the Los Angeles Times described it as:
“a low-key and unassuming film of rising tension rather than big scares or wild shocks.”
Michael Phillips in the Chicago Tribune, while noting that the film “contains only a wee handful of surprises,” nevertheless wrote that it amounts to:
“a break from the usual hyperbolic, down-your-throat brand of silly and derivative scare movies.”
Joel Brown in he Boston Globe called it:
“a low-budget thriller built on creative spare parts. … For most horror fans it will be kind of a snooze.”
Mike Hale in the New York Times did commend the filmmakers for recreating:
“the grainy, jumpy images that were miraculously beamed back to terrestrial televisions during the Apollo flights.”
He then remarked that in the end:
“All we get is the low-level tension of strange noises, flickering lights and shock cuts; when the monsters appear, they’re so sketchy, whether by design or from lack of budget, that you can’t believe you’ve waited around to see them.”
-IMDB News