Last night I was in the mood for a completely different type of movie that I have
not seen in awhile. I selected the outer space movie Europa Report, and I made a good selection because it is a good, thought-provoking, and well-acted movie. It stars Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, and Christian Camargo. If you are looking for an Alien-like action, adventure then this is not the movie for you. It is more a thought-provoking movie with intrigue. What is the story?
An unmanned space probe has sent a signal back to Earth indicating that there may be alien life forms on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. All signs indicate that these life forms are microorganisms. It was decided that this was worth investigating; hence, a six-person ship called The Europa One is sent out by a group of private investors to confirm what's actually been discovered. Corrigan (Copley), the ship's lead engineer, doesn't want to leave his family but is wooed away by the prospect of the mission while another engineer named Blok (Nyqvist) is none too keen on the ship's small quarters but deals with it the best he can for the same reason. The other four members are Dr. Katya Petrovna (Karolina Wydra), William Xu (Daniel Wu), Dr. Daniel Luxembourg (Camargor) and Rosa Dasque (Anamaria Marinca) and all of them are just as intrigued by the prospects of a massive scientific discovery as the engineers are.
Not so long after the ship launches, mission control, led by Dr. Unger and Dr. Sokolov (Don Fogler) lose contact with the ship. The footage that makes its way back to Earth is then examined as we learn, with input from Unger and Sokolov, just what happened to the small crew out there in the far reaches of space . . .
I recommend Europe Report for the aforementioned reasons. It is thought provoking.