When unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean, possibly containing single-celled life, could exist underneath the icy surface of Jupiter’s Moon Europa, a privately funded space exploration company sends six of the best astronauts from around the world to confirm the data and explore the revolutionary discovery. After a near-catastrophic technical failure, the astronauts must overcome the psychological and physical toll of deep space travel, and survive a discovery on Europa more profound than they had ever imagined.
Europa Report encompasses the documentary, alternative history and science fiction thriller genres. Developed in close collaboration with NASA, JPL, SpaceX and other leaders in the scientific community, the film imagines the next step in manned space exploration and is based on recent scientific discoveries and theories.
Starring Sharlto Copley, known for his acclaimed roles in Neill Blomkamp’s Distrct 9 and Elysium, the film is the English language debut of director Sebastián Cordero, who once again teams up with two previous collaborators, Academy Award winning Production Designer Eugenio Caballero (Pan’s Labyrinth, The Impossible) and Director of Photography Enrique Chediak (127 Hours).
The film further cements its sci-fi credentials with music by Bear McCreary (Battlestar Galactica, The Walking Dead).
Europa Report Review
Let’s face it there are a lot of “found-footage” movies around and the genre has become massive over the years, but this one is a little different, being Sci-Fi it works extremely well.
Having Sharlto Copley on board, excuse the pun, is a nice touch and his style of acting in the film really holds it together with its sometimes slightly over visual effects, but isn’t that what a Sci-Fi movie does these days.
Europa Report is certainly one of those movies that keeps you gripped for the outcome of the crew, it certainly had me on the edge of my seat throughout the movie.
I recommend Europa Report for Sci-Fi fans and fans of the found-footage genre as the two have worked very well with other on this instance.
It’s certainly a film, I enjoyed watching it. Great news for you all today (3rd March), Euopa Report is now exclusively available for Download and VOD.
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Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of the Blazing Minds. She is also a Cinema reviewer and works with RealD 3D reviewing the latest 3D releases and IMAX, she has also had several articles published in various publications including the first edition of SFW Magazine. In 2015 she became an Award Winning Blogger and also has her website listed as one of the UK’s Top 10 Film Blogs.
