«Apollo 18»: Once again, Russian First on the Moon

September 1, 2011 on Russian screens for a day before the premiere in the U.S. beyond the long-awaited sci-fi thriller "Apollo 18" (distributor - WDSSPR) - producing a new project by Timur Bekmambetov, who managed to make some much noise before the official release, which has been repeatedly tolerated.Russian and foreign distributors (in U.S. film companies are Weinstein Co. And Dimension Films) confer on the history of the last flight of Americans to the moon high expectations. So, VFX Supervisor Denis Sedov pictures (Bazelevs), responsible for special effects in the film, says that an operator seeking to documentary images, charged in the camera scratched film, and some scenes even filmed on 16 mm cameras, which are used by astronauts during actual travel on the moon. To reconstruct in detail the relief of the lunar surface, the atmosphere of the spacecraft, astronauts character movements crew helped professionals NASA, astronauts involved in the preparation. The very plot of the film, as it should be every Hollywood blockbuster, is placed in a sentence or two. Three astronauts are sent in mission to the moon, which the Ministry of Defence for an unknown reason holds in secret. At first, everything goes like clockwork. But on the third day of the mission, participants are faced with two unpleasant - mysterious killer the locals in the form of rocks, penetrating into the body and destroy its host (here also suggests a parallel with the most famous painting of this kind, "Strange") and you will not believe, with Russian presence on the moon ... Tips and here ahead of the Americans, putting them in an awkward position ("Russian on the moon, and this one does not know?"). The latter is especially will like the Russian audience, emotionally reacting to every image of his countrymen in American films (although the "Apollo 18" because of the presence of the Russian producer, as such can only be described with some exaggeration). This plot twist gives the film a certain charm and originality, and our audience - an occasion for ironic laughter. But apart from the audience laughter and fear, "Apollo 18" and expects the philosophical conclusion that we are all just helpless guinea pigs in the hands of those who calmly makes history.