Did I mention I was referring to 'Blair Witch Project 2'?
Now you really have an idea of what to expect from this ill-conceived project. More misguided than one of those 1950s US missile tests where the rocket turns sideways 3 seconds after lift off this is a film which promises much but totally fails to deliver.
And it's not pretty.
It's not gripping, exciting, frightening or absorbing either. The strongest emotion you're likely to experience is boredom coupled with the powerful urge to stop watching. There is absolutely nothing to engage the senses here. If only director Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego had put the same amount of effort into the story that he puts into playing around with his box of digital tricks to recreate 35 year old video tape shot on the moon he might have had something but he didn't so he doesn't.
Perhaps must annoying he makes no effort to make it look as if the two astronauts are actually on the moon. There's no attempt to create an image of weightlessness; it just looks like two guys in spacesuits in front of a black backdrop, running around the Arizona desert. Meanwhile in the command capsule orbiting the moon the third crew member is floating around the cabin, so perhaps the real explanation is that Mr Lopez-Gallego believes there's Earth-strength gravity on the Moon.
Actually that's not the most annoying aspect. That award belongs to the film's grand climax when all sense of science and logic is jettisoned in the interests of an exciting finale that fails to materialise. Absolute nonsense from start to finish without even the consolation of engaging our interest or scaring us at any point.
The only screams APOLLO 18 is likely to generate are screams of frustration.
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