You're almost there! Analyzing the samples, Luxembourg discovers traces of a single-celled organism. I've let my feeling be known many times on how I feel about these found footage documentary films, that use camcorders. What parents need to know Parents need to know that Europa Report is a "found footage" sci-fi movie. Luxembourg tries to descend but falls through the ice. With Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist, Christian Camargo, Embeth Davidtz. A screenshot from the teaser for "The Europa Report," a sci-fi film that depicts a team of astronauts exploring Jupiter's icy moon Europa for alien life. By opting to have your ticket verified for this movie, you are allowing us to check the email address associated with your Rotten Tomatoes account against an email address associated with a Fandango ticket purchase for the same movie. The movie features music from Bear McCreary ("Battlestar Galactica"). [4] It was scored by Bear McCreary. Not much is actually shown (until the very end), but creepy things happen, characters die, and their absence is … Europa Report is different, as the film is told through surveillance cameras, aboard a state of the art space ship. All Critics (79) The research, presented Wednesday at the virtual Goldschmidt geochemistry conference, has yet to be peer-reviewed. Directed by Sebastián Cordero. Alone and anticipating her death, Dasque opens the airlock to flood the lander in hopes of revealing the source of the light. The cinematography was better than most of these film, and there was somewhat of a back story, however Europa Report is really not much different than a million other similar films. In this latest research, scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory used data from the Galileo mission to model the composition and other physical characteristics of Europa's hidden layers, including its subsurface ocean. The aspect of the moon Europa was based for accuracy on data from NASA and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) maps of the moon's surface. The underrated 2013 indie flick Europa Report even investigates the concept. This 10-digit number is your confirmation number. |, August 22, 2019 [8] The film was released on Video on Demand, iTunes, and Google Play Movies & TV on June 27, 2013, and was released theatrically on August 2, 2013. | Rating: 3.5/5 Swimming could turn out to be the most common way of getting around in our solar system. A key aspect that makes a world 'habitable' is an intrinsic ability to maintain these chemical disequilibria. "[9] Review aggregation website Metacritic gives a rating of 68 out of 100 based on reviews from 25 critics, which indicates "generally favorable" reviews. Alien Species is a FANDOM Books Community. When unmanned probes suggest that a hidden ocean and single-celled life exists on one of Jupiter's moons, six astronauts embark on an ill-fated exploratory mission. The film is presented in a Found Footage style, with almost everything the audience sees recorded by the cameras on the spacecraft and on the astronauts' suits. Sign up here. There was a problem. |, May 23, 2018 The alien in the 2013 film "Europa Report" is also octopus-like in appearance, hiding beneath the icy surface of Jupiter's moon, the first stop in our present search for alien life. Europa Report - Trailer. Fortunately, just such a mission is coming up soon. Watch Trailer. | Rating: 4/5, November 27, 2019 The main issue isn't so much action violence as lots of tension and terror. Europa may not be the only wet and wild world in our neighborhood. Coming Soon. This sincerity, coupled with a documentary-style approach, can feel a little dry, but the script's refusal to go to extremes only raises its plausibility. After twenty months, the ship goes into orbit around Europa and its lunar lander lands safely on Europa but misses its target zone. lurking in … As for the cast, they were just like film, in that they were very average, with little to nothing of note. The creature's design included bio-luminescence from the initial concepts. The probe is struck by an unknown lighted object and contact with it is lost. While "Europa Report" is fiction, it tries hard to get much of the science right, officials said. The first image from the film was revealed on February 11, 2012. Despite a disastrous technical failure that causes the loss of all communications with Earth mission control and a series of crises, the crew continues its mission to Europa and finds mounting evidence of life on the moon.[3]. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. I'm not qualified to judge the accuracy of the scientific detail, though the filmmakers convey a genuine respect for hard science instead of the cursory interest shown by most science fiction movies. Dasque re-establishes communication with Earth; all the collected images and data that have been saved since the solar storm are relayed to Earth via the mother ship, just as the ice cracks and the lander begins to sink. Astrobiologists are indeed mightily intrigued by Europa, which has a diameter of about 1,900 miles (3,200 kilometers).