Rent Europa Report (2013)

Solid pro-science movie - Europa Report review by AER

Authentic science-fiction movie about a mission to establish life on Europa (one of Jupiter's moons). The choice to tell the story via cameras aboard the mission shop and video diaries is interesting and serves the narrative well, as opposed to being another found-footage horror howler. The acting is convincing and the characters authentic. There is little room for melodrama and big actor moments - terrifying problems arise on the mission to jepordise the success and the crew respond within the parameters of their roles - there's no heroes and wise asses on board. Some may think this renders the film dramatically under-powered but I enjoyed it for the way it strived for authenticity over Hollywood-flavoured tom-foolery.

The main negative is the obvious impact the small budget has had on the SFX. Whilst much of the visuals are appropriate to the camera technology in the film, some of the death scenes on Europa are confusing and disorientating, which is a shame. This might disappoint viewers who like this kind of film purely to see who dies how and when. Most of the characters die off-screen.

For a low-budget sci-fi it is streets ahead of most sci-fis. It is worth a look for its seriousness and an attempt to give us something a little bit different.

Ok space movie - Europa Report review by MD

Manned mission to Europa goes to discover stuff under the sea ice. Not bad movie but has no English subtitles and some of the on screen description is in German. The spoken English is good and mainly understandable.

Give it a Miss! - Europa Report review by CS

Billed as a Science Fiction Horror, this is yet another one of those cheaply made, badly scripted, badly acted, poorly directed and basically non films where they place lots of cheap cameras all over the place and film it, like Blair Witch or Cloverfield! There is nothing horror about this at all and the alien which you don't see until right at the end of the film is laughable, more like a giant Jellyfish than anything. Really slow, dull, boring, the cast look really bored, the script is terrible, delivery awful and direction really bitty with editing all over the place. The whole film looks like it was made on a very cheap budget with not a lot of imagination. I struggle to see how this ever made it into production with such flimsy and overdone storyline.