Reactions are rolling in for Apollo 18, which gets some knocks from the Rotten Tomatoes website, only 23% of whose approved reviewers give a positive comment.
However, last time I looked, ordinary movie-goers were rewarding Apollo 18 with a 76% like-rating. Make of that dichotomy what you will. Maybe an example of sniffy reviewers? Or a case of too-easily pleased punters? Or perhaps a bit of both?
Either way, Apollo 18's central premise is a neat one that explains why the US abandoned the Moon, just when the technology was there to make it the 51st state.
Apollo 18 reminds me of so many 1950s-era sci-fi magazine shorts - however good or bad the prose, the core ideas were almost always interesting and worthy of discussion.
Until the next 'missing material' movie then!
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