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2013 10:42 AM   • |  Review: How Sci-Fi Found Footage Thriller
'Europa Report' Envisions a Credible Future For Deep Space
Travel  "Europa Report."  Deep space thrillers tend to sidestep
logic in favor of nightmarish dread. Last year's summer hit
"Prometheus" featured an impossible near future in which travel
to extrasolar planets was an easily obtainable goal and
envisioned a complex world of predatory aliens and zombie
viruses. By contrast, Sebastián Cordero's "Europa Report" is
practically a documentary, presenting a chilling space mission
gone wrong in fairly believable terms. Using the familiar
approach of found footage to chronicle an ill-fated mission to
Jupiter's icy moon Europa, Cordero's movie has many of the same
ingredients found in "Prometheus" and precedents like "Alien,"
but roots them in a realistic science basis. The result is both
subdued by the standards of the genre and more intriguing
because of its window into an event possibly