Apollo 18

Released: 2011
Horror, Sci-fi
Director: Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego
Starring: Warren Christie, Lloyd Owen
Running Time: 86 minutes
Rated: PG-13

The breakdown:  On NASA's last and secret Apollo mission (18), found footage shows what happened on the surface of the moon and the unfortunate end of its astronauts.

This movie looked really bad from the previews and it was.
Usually "found footage" movies don't work so well and end up being boring to sit through, this one is no exception.

On the final mission of the Apollo space program, 3 astronauts are chosen to go to the moon.  2 of them go down to the surface, while the third stays in orbit to get them all home.
While the 2 are on the surface, exploring, one finds the empty shell of the current cosmonaut moon lander and the single cosmonaut dead in a dark crater a bit farther away.
Upon further exploring, one astronaut has an encounter with something he can't explain.  He was attacked outside the moon lander and the other astronaut has not seen what happened so neither do we.  He has a cut on his suit and the other astronaut hurries him back to the safety of their moon lander so he can inspect what kind of damage was done.  He discovers a large cut on the man's abdomen and he looks as though, he's getting quite the weird infection.  Over the next few hours, his conditions worsens and it's obvious he's been infected with some sort of alien illness.  The other astronaut pulls out a rock out of the man's wound, and the infected astronaut tries to destroy it with a hammer but it just breaks apart all over the lander.
SPOILER
talking about the terrible ending coming up.  But I really suggest you save your time but NOT seeing this movie and just keep reading.
SO by the end of the film, NASA's telling the seemingly uninfected astronaut that they are going to have to leave him behind, and that he is indeed infected.
He's fought hard to save the other guy, but it seems the infected one wants to stay on the moon and tells the other guy to save himself and just leave.
The rocks are the aliens and they pop out legs and look like crabs when they feel like moving or attacking.
Really?  Space crabs?
The 2 astronauts have one final big fight in the dark crater, and the first astronaut has decided to leave, but the infected one comes along with his hammer and decides that's not going to happen.  He smashes the window to the lander with his hammer, so the astronaut inside is forced to take the old Russian moon lander from the dead cosmonaut and try to get that up to the orbiter somehow.  At this point, the astronaut orbiting is telling the other one that they'll find a way to get him home.  I'm pretty sure it's impossible to link the NASA orbiter to the Russian moon lander, but this movie is terrible anyway, so it's not really important.

So anyway, the Russian moon lander is on it's way up and you can see that the guy really is showing signs of infection as well.  NASA's telling the orbiter astronaut to just leave him behind and if he does try to save the other guy, they will leave him in radio silence without any help to get him back to Earth.  It turns out NASA knew that the aliens existed already and were extremely dangerous.

The orbiter guy is telling the other one to slow his vehicle down, but then they crash into each other and everyone's now dead.  NASA says they all died hero's and makes up a story for each one's death, not revealing the truth about the mission or the existence of aliens on the moon.


Space crabs!?  That's what it comes down to.  Everyone had space crabs.  Terrible.  Terribly slow paced, terribly boring, terrible everything.  DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE.
It's a complete waste of time with a ridiculous alien creature idea.
1/2 out of 5 for the possibility of this somehow being a redeemable idea, but completely going wrong, right from the beginning.