Europa Report

While Europa Report isn't mind-blowing and doesn't bring any groundbreaking ideas to the table, it is still watchable at least once. This is a situation when you make the most of what you have. A good budget sci-fi.

The performances are ok, the story is a basic sci-fi one, CGI is very noticeable but they tried, I think I even spotted a couple of good sets and a good matte painting.

The story works mostly because of the characters, which are relatable and imperfect. Their motives and deeds are understandable.

While the pseudo-documentary style opens new options and provides for interesting scenes, they never do anything creative with it besides some fast cut-ins for you to spot. My biggest complaint is that sometimes it gets overly sentimental and somewhat tells you to feel the same, which just doesn't work with the style they've established.

A good one-time sci-fi watch if you thought you've seen it all and if you are desperately looking for good low budget ones.

As a science/space enthusiast, I found this movie to be really interesting and enjoyed it. I think all the viewers who like these types of plots would enjoy it, but the directorial approach may be annoying to some viewers. The shaky statics videos and limited angels of camera view might not be too popular. There wasn't any character development or focus on the characters, it was pretty straight forward. The documentary style used was reasonable. The best thing about this movie was it was a low budget indie movie which did a wonderful job. A lot could have been better. Humans traveling to space and land on Europa, a moon in Jupiter, that itself is a reason to watch it, Do not expect a typical Hollywood style movie. However this movie takes a very realistic approach to present the complex space mission depicting the psychological and the physical strains on the astronauts.

I'm not sure what it is but as the end credits started rolling I felt like something was missing. I'm not talking about the ending like for some movies, but just the overall movie. The plot was fairly basic but all in all decently written. The acting is uneven and they could have used better actors but nothing horrible. And the pacing is pretty well done; I didn't mind the non-linear story telling. So really, there is nothing terribly wrong... maybe it's just the combination of everything being just ok that makes me feel like there was potential for a really good sci-fi movie but in the end it's a little bland. Still a fun watch though.

Not every sci-fi movie is an action-packed super-hero popcorn flick. Luckily! And Europa Report shines among those, lately rather rare examples.

Europa Report follows the line of a documentary and does that so successfully that I, throughout the movie, kept forgetting that humans actually have not yet landed on Europa. While the search for extraterrestrial is in fact the focus of the mission, it is not the focus of this movie, but rather human behavior and psychology, the magic of exploration and the steps we are ready to take for something that is larger than individual life.

The story flows beautifully and, yes, with time-jumps demands full attention from the viewer. And as a consequence also delivers a great deal of excitement and enjoyment. Have the last minute or so of "the storyteller's" explanation and commentaries not came across a bit patronizing and unnecessary, somewhat spoiling the spirit of this pretty intelligent movie, I would consider giving it a 10.

I definitely recommend to all the science, space exploration and old- school-sci-fi fans. And for those after Ironman and the Avengers - probably not a movie for you.

I liked this movie. It was a good sci-fi flick, but based in a believable near-future world. The voyage is captured by stationary cameras throughout the ship and a story is patched together from them. The acting was very good. There admittedly wasn't much in the way of character development, but I didn't notice it. The whole film I was hoping the story would move forward faster and faster to the end, to find out what, if anything, was discovered, and the fate of the crew.

Mostly what I liked about it was that it wasn't over-the-top storytelling, nor was it over-the-top with special effects. It used them only to tell the story that needed to be told and weren't overused. One reviewer chastised the special effects as being poor, but I disagree. They were believable. Bad is the crap they make for the Science Fiction Channel.

This movie may not appeal to everyone precisely because it's not over-the-top. It was simple, with building tension throughout the film and a good ending. There weren't monsters and aliens everywhere, there was a distinct Hitchcocian feel to it.

Very good; well worth watching.