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I am not much for watching humans in space helmets going about their space business, but this is some whopper of a movie. I think that all the clichés are avoided or, if not, then revitalized in the exciting, riveting, extraordinary Europa Report (2013). A lost mission is "found" through the records, the "report", they make of their trip to one of the moons of Jupiter. Europa. There is a space ship, there are helmets, there is excitement and there is the certainty that they won't make it. We know this from the beginning. This does not lessen the suspense and the impact of the surprises that the crew will uncover. We see the report, a collection of videos made by the crew and online monitors and radio broadcasts. I just adored this. I was wrung dry. It is a definite 4 and maybe a 5 out of Netflix5. Why is it that movies of this caliber do not make it somehow? A puzzle. Oh. The documentation at the end by NASA and other space experts is so extensive that they are working with the real deal here. Who needs gimmicks?

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