Sadly Over-hyped

A very feeble attempt at affirmatie action

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This review contains the spoiler of telling you why they went to the moon, but not the ending.The reason why no one knew about this mission was because it was top secret. 2 astronauts land on the moon near its south pole. The movie cleverly combines actual film footage of NASA with their own track over and their own film. They were careful enough to use side lighting to create the long shadows seen in the NASA films. I appreciate it when they do their homework. The cameras have been put in place. This avoids much of that sea sick motion you get from the other reality (translate:cheap) type movies.Now the reason why they really went there was to check on the Russians who have landed a LEM (looks like a diving bell) on the moon. The crew was not informed about this so they really panicked when they found another set of footprints. What we know:1)The Russian is dead, apparently killed. 2) There is a strange rock that seems to move on its own, but we don't see it move. 3) There is a strange crater/shaft made from different rock which is at the heart of the problem. 4) There are communication issues and there appears to be strange going-ons outside the LEM that suggests visitors.Now I hate hand held reality movies. My finger is on the fast forward button more than a lab rat pressing for cheese. But this one held my interest. I wanted to see what was causing all the grief, even if it was just for a fleeting moment and later they did resort to the herky-jerky camera. I was too far along at the time. I wonder how this lines up with "The Dark Side of the Moon?"

From the first minute this is just boring nonsense. It is another found footage film, similar to the ones where a group of friends go on a trip and something unexpected happens. Well, in this case they happen to go to the moon... Everything is cheap and cheesy, the member who is really brave and starts exploring the area risking his life, the distortion effects, the editing and I could go on and on.The moon set was good, it looked real. Sadly, they wasted it with a very bad and boring film.

So this wasn't as bad as I thought it may be nor was it anything particularly exceptional. I'm admittedly not a huge horror found footage fan. It's been overdone and there are few stand outs. This actually had a very interesting premise but a poor follow through. So if you're a found footage fan than it's definitely worth a watch. But there are far superior sci-fi horror films instead. The absolute king of the mountain would be "Alien".

I don't know what to make of this film, except to say that it may be the silliest excuse for a sci-fiction/horror movie ever cobbled together. I got the feeling while I was watching it that the flick was made solely as a vehicle to showcase the three leads, and nothing else. In truth, I have never seen these guys in anything before.The film is a hash-fest of mistakes and blunders. I can't understand how they could make this, a science fiction movie, and yet do so little research so that they could get things right. The Apollo Program information isn't exactly classified.And then we get to the monsters: giant, anaerobic spiders with the ability to morph themselves into rocks, even though there isn't any evolutionary reason for them to possess this ability. They're just there, and that's that. I think it would fairly easy to create a much better monster.And then there is the fact that the spiders tore the Russian flag to bits, and later did the same to the U.S. flag. What, are the Moon creatures fascists who hate both nations?