After several release date changes, the film was in the United States, Britain and Canada on the second Published September 2011, but the release dates vary for other areas
Plot
In December 1974, the Department of Defense contacts the occupation of the previously canceled Apollo 18 mission to inform, that the mission is a go, although it has been kept strictly secret. Nathan Walker, commander, Lieutenant Colonel John Grey and Captain Benjamin Anderson have started on the moon, supposedly to collect moon rocks, but given her mission is to place detectors in order to make the United States from an ICBM attack coming from the USSR attention.
Gray will remain in orbit aboard Freedom as Walker and Anderson landed on the moon in the lunar module Liberty. While planting one of the detectors, which take two samples of strange rocks. In trying to sleep, the two noises outside and a camera captures a small stone to move into the area. Houston claimed the noises are distractions from the ICBM-detectors. Anderson finds a rock sample on the soil of liberty secured despite the specimen. Upon further investigation they discover traces that lead to a Soviet LK lander in the vicinity, because they defiled it functional, but blood. Anderson followed tracks leading into a dark crater and finds a dead cosmonauts. Walker Houston inquiries about the Soviet presence, however, rejected just said to continue with the mission.
The following day the couple found the flag they had planted, is missing. To fulfill its mission, the crew prepares to leave on the moon, but the start is aborted when freedom suffers from violent shaking. An inspection shows extensive damage to freedom and inhuman tracks that Walker cites as evidence of extraterrestrial life. Walker feels something moving in his space suit and helmet and a spider-like creature crawls appalled at the inside of his helmet. Walker disappears from view and Anderson found him unconscious outside of Liberty. Walker later denied the events. Walker discovered a wound on chest, a resultant operation takes a piece of moon rock embedded in. The couple will not be able to contact Houston or gray for unknown reasons.
Anderson suggested that the true intent of the ICBM warning devices, the aliens win. Walker has shown signs of developing infections, such as its wound grows and turns, and he becomes increasingly paranoid. The mission of cameras capture the rock samples to move the interior of the Liberty, the aliens reveal themselves to be on the rocks. Increasingly delusional, Walker attempted to destroy the cameras within the Liberty, but accidentally damaged, the system controls what freedom to pressure. Recognized the Soviet LK is their only source of oxygen, the two trips to the LK lunar lander in their car. Along the way, Walker tried to run away, he does not believe would leave the moon and risk spreading the infection to Earth. Anderson collapsed when he tried to stop Walker.
Anderson Walker wakes and tracks to find him on the crater, where they found the cosmonauts. Walker has moved into the crater. Anderson takes the chase, using his flashlight to illuminate the area. The rocky start, the parasite causing Anderson to escape the Soviet LK change. With the radio, he makes contact with the Soviet Mission Control, which he connects with the United States Department of Defense. The department informed Anderson that they do not allow him to return to Earth to admit that they have the situation and the fear that he is also infected. Anderson succeeds in gray contact them and arrange for Anderson to return to freedom. Anderson prepares for the start of the lander, but it is attacked by Walker. Before Walker can be the vehicle to prevent it, he is consumed by the creatures.
Anderson brings the LK lander successfully, but Houston informed Grey, Anderson is infected. Gray Anderson is ordered to cancel or save the communication will no longer be, so they both do not return in a position to Earth. To float inside the lander, the causes of the reduced gravity, revealing the tiny rock samples were also taken cosmonauts. Anderson is attacked and infected by the creatures, prevented him from the vehicle, causing it to collide with freedom.
The shots cut from the pilot mission to show them with a barbecue with friends and family. The "official" fate of the astronauts is given, as she described with several accidents in which their bodies died unrecoverable left. An epilogue explains that many of the samples of rock re-distributed by the Apollo missions to foreign dignitaries, now missing
Cast
* Warren Christie as lunar module pilot Captain Benjamin "Ben" Anderson
* Lloyd Owen as Commander Nathan "Nate" Walker
* Ryan Robbins as Command Module pilot Lieutenant Colonel John Grey
Production
The film in Vancouver, British Columbia and stars actor Lloyd Owen and Warren Christie.However was shot, as it has "found footage" film, which revealed no actors. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Dimension Films head Bob Weinstein denied the film was a work of fiction, stating that "We do not want to shoot anything, we found it. Found, baby!" The film will be distributed by Dimension Films .
The Science & Entertainment Exchange offered a scientific consulting to the film production is team.This because NASA, which usually serves as a scientific adviser to the science-fiction films, refused to do so for this film. NASA spokesman Bert Ulrich stated explicitly that the movie was fiction and called it a "Blair Witch Project to generate hype strategy," notes that NASA is not even seen a rough cut.
Release
Apollo 18 was on 2 Published September 2011 in several countries. Originally designed for fourth Planned in March 2011, the film's release date six times a year (including on April 22, 2011, July 8, 2011, January 13, 2012, 26 August 2011 and 2 September 2011) was postponed.
The movie trailer was attached Battle: Los Angeles, Boundless, Rio, Super 8, Scream 4, Cars 2, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, The Smurfs and Captain America: The First Avenger.
Dimension Films refused the film on the screen and places a press embargo on reviewing the film, until at the second Was published in September 2011.
Reception
The film received mostly negative reviews from critics, with Rotten Tomatoes gives it a 18% rating on consensus: "A dull, suspense-free Paranormal Activity rip-off, which feels a long time even just 90 minutes."