Europa Report

sci-fi

Nice thriller about a manned expedition to Europa, a moon of Jupiter with an icy crust and an ocean under it which might contain life. The crew are international and both sexes. No time is spent on character development - which hurt the film's eventual impact. As the cast began getting picked off one-by-one it was difficult to care.

Primary focus was the tech stuff both in theme and look and that was very impressive. It wasn't 2001 but it tried to honor that seminal work and succeeded.

There isn't much intelligent sci-fi out there...this one comes in as a solid B effort.

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