Commitment To A Bit



Europa Report (2013) 89 mins.

 

"I don't know what greater measure of success they could've achieved."

Europa Report is a sterile, tight, cramped, claustrophobic, voyeuristic little movie. For what it is, it's an excellent movie. For its commitment to its main message, for understanding the kind of people who make science, and for not flinching from its inevitable ending, I give this movie a Five Star rating: Really Good.

You won't be blown away by its action scenes, or swept up headlong by its pace. It's a quiet, desperate, sweaty little film, but in in its own way it's very effective.

Taking from the style of movies like Moon, it expands and extrapolates on the documentary style and dry delivery of the New Hard Science Fiction. If you enjoy that sort of thing as much as I do, you may enjoy it as much as I did.

Much in the vein of some of my favorite movies, from Silent Running to 2001, a very well-done science fiction movie which keeps the emphasis on the science.

Five Stars: Really Good.

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