Allegedly these are the 'lost footage' of the American astronauts on the last manned moon mission, Apollo 18. It addresses a somewhat far-fetched conspiracy theory, but not totally impossible or improbable. Although the film is short (an hour and half), it is slow, as it is about space exploration. At the end a question arises: how was that footage recovered when everything points to it being destroyed as shown in the last scene with the collision of the lunar modules? The premise is not bad, but due to the so far-fetched theory, its slowness and the last plot hole I cannot give more than 3/10. I'm also of the opinion that this film would be better achieved if instead of 'found footage' it had used a more conventional '2001 Space Odyssey' technique, since it is space exploration. I understand it's a low budget movie but even so the image is very bad and it's poorly edited and it's slow and it gets tiring.

All I can say that this was 2 hours of my life that I will never get back. The premise was somewhat intriguing going in. The reality was anything but. To continue to go with the "classified footage that was found" story, when the capsule burned up on re-entry was completely ludicrous. I nearly walked out, but stayed because I paid to see it. I wish that I had walked out.

****SPOILERS**** Unreported last manned space flight to the moon on Christmas day 1974 that didn't quite make it back has us believe that it run into interference with some kind of alien virus that contaminated the entire three man crew and was ditched by the very agency NASA that sent it there. It's not just the Apollo mission that was kept secret from the public but an earlier Soviet manned space probe to the lunar surface that ended in disaster with it's cosmonaut crewman dying from the same alien virus that eventually did in the three US astronauts.Shot in a choppy and slow motion semi black & white photography it's as torturous watching the movie as it is for the actors in it playing their parts. With the head man Captain Ben Anderson, Warren Christe, trying to keep his two man crew Commander Nate Walker, Lloyd Owens, and module pilot Col. John Gray,Ryan Robbins,from flipping out before he can get them back to earth with his boss Secretary of Defense Michael Kopsa scrubbing their secret mission in mid-flight. That in keeping the public from knowing what a complete disaster it was.***SPOILERS***It seemed that the reason for this space mission was to really find out what happened to the Soviet space module that secretly landed on the moon after the lat Apollo mission, Apollo 17, was launched two years earlier and if it was still in operation. The men of Apollo 18 had no idea what they were expected to accomplish until they came upon the destroyed Soviet space craft and soon realized they were on a suicide mission right from the start. That was not only to prove that there's someone else up there but sadly also like himself, the Soviet cosmonaut,they were to suffer the same fate that he did!

"Apollo 18" is a science fiction/horror film which depicts a top-secret Apollo mission to the moon during the early 1970's. The film is presented in a mock-documentary format, using footage which was designed to appear as old archived NASA footage from the Apollo mission.The film has a number of things in its favor. The footage of the moon landing is fairly realistic-looking, making it relatively easy for members of the audience to suspend their belief for the duration of the movie. The cast consists of relatively unknown actors who provide decent performances during the movie. The film provides a number of genuinely creepy moments as well as enough cliffhanger moments to keep members of the audience on the edge of their seats.The film does have a few logic flaws. Since the film was presented in a mock-documentary format, one has to wonder how the footage from this mission was supposedly recovered when the spacecraft and crew supposedly failed to return to Earth. One also has to wonder why members of the public were not surprised by an unannounced nighttime launch of a Saturn V rocket."Apollo 18" is not a perfect film. It falls short of being as riveting as Ron Howard's film, "Apollo 13." However, "Apollo 18" is still an entertaining "what if" film about a fictional top-secret Apollo mission. The film is definitely worth seeing and would make a good entry for those showing horror movies on Halloween night.