History Film / EuropaReport

* TooDumbToLive: Katya not returning to the ship... in deadly radiation... with an unknown organism below the ice.

* DwindlingParty: [[spoiler: Starts pretty early on, then in full swing for the last act.]]

''Europa Report'' is a 2013 independent ScienceFiction film. It depicts the voyage of a MultinationalTeam of astronauts on a mission to find life on Jupiter’s moon Europa.

* FridgeHorror: It's hard to notice at first, but the BittersweetEnding is more terrifying when you realize that the in-universe makers of the film ''intentionally'' made sure to edit it to have an uplifting ending. [[spoiler: A bunch of people died and the financiers of the mission want you to feel good about it the next time they ask for money.]]

* ForegoneConclusion: Zig-zagged. In the first few minutes we know about the death of James Corrigan and find out that something went wrong with the mission. However, the movie very cleverly fools you with what appears to be [[spoiler: interviews with Rosa after the mission, implying that she survived]] only to later reveal [[spoiler: these were actually recordings she made herself during the mission, and that she died along with the rest of the crew]].

* TheRadioDiesFirst: The radiation storm that knocks out the communication is the first of the crew's problems.

* KillEmAll: [[spoiler:Nobody on the Europa crew survives, though for once it is not that aliens that kill them, at least directly: long-distance space travel in general and the Europan environment specifically is so hostile that they kill almost all the crew. The ''curious'' (as opposed to hostile) aliens cracking the ice under people does the rest.]]

* MohsScaleOfScienceFictionHardness: Quite hard, with some typical genre concessions, and of course [[spoiler: the Europan underwater octopodes.]]
** Even then [[spoiler: the alien wasn't pushing it ''too much''. It's just a little optimistic to believe that there's anything more than microbial life on Europa. It's implausible, not impossible.]]

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: Despite being hard scifi, a few examples.

** After landing on Europa, the crew is told the ambient temperature is holding at Absolute Zero, far colder than the mean temperature of Europa. Odd, but no big deal. Until we are told the ice will continue to shift more and more violently as the temperature drops.

** You'd be forgiven for thinking they were actually exploring an Earth-sized world with a vast lake of freshwater rather than the small ice-moon. With such low gravity and an environment of saltwater, having the ice breaking under [[spoiler:Katya and Daniel]] would have not been an immediately life threatening event - [[spoiler:they]] would have likely floated for a while. In addition, real astronauts train for zero-gravity environments underwater all the time - water is no big deal to a proper space suit.

** With such low gravity and an environment of saltwater, having the ice breaking under [[spoiler:Katya]] would have not been an immediately life threatening event - [[spoiler:she]] would have likely floated for a while. Real astronauts train for zero-gravity environments underwater all the time.

** With such low gravity and an environment of saltwater, having the ice breaking under [[spoiler:Katya]] would have not been and immediately life threatening event - [[spoiler:she]] would have likely floated for a while. Real astronauts train for zero-gravity environments underwater all the time.

* FinalGirl: [[spoiler: Averted. While some clips seem to be of Rosa being interviewed after the mission, this is in fact footage she herself recorded a short time before her death.]]

'''''Europa Report''''' is a 2013 independent ScienceFiction film. It depicts the voyage of a MultinationalTeam of astronauts on a mission to find life on Jupiter’s moon Europa.

* DeadStarWalking: Sharlto Copley is the top-billed star of the film, yet has limited screen time and is the first character to be killed off. It isn’t even a spoiler, since thanks to the AnachronicOrder this is revealed five minutes into the film.

* [[spoiler: DwindlingParty: Starts pretty early on, then in full swing for the last act.]]

* [[spoiler: FinalGirl]]: [[spoiler: Averted. While some clips seem to be of Rosa being interviewed after the mission, this is in fact footage she herself recorded a short time before her death.]]

* [[spoiler:KillEmAll: Nobody on the Europa crew survives, though for once it is not that aliens that kill them, at least directly: long-distance space travel in general and the Europan environment specifically is so hostile that they kill almost all the crew. The ''curious'' (as opposed to hostile) aliens cracking the ice under people does the rest.]]

* FridgeHorror: It's hard to notice at first, but the BittersweetEnding is more terrifying when you realize that the in-universe makers of the film ''intentionally'' made sure to edit it to have an uplifting ending. [[spoiler: a bunch of people died and the financiers of the mission want you to feel good about it the next time they ask for money.]]

* MyGreatestFailure: Andrei feels this way about [[spoiler: losing James on their EVA, as he'd been the one that wanted to force the panel open, and had tried to get James out of his suit to avoid the hydrazine problem just before losing enough air to be knocked out]]. Couple this with his status as TheVeteran, and it hits even harder.

* MyGreatestFailure: Andrei feels this way about losing James on their EVA, as he'd been the one that wanted to [[spoiler: force the panel open, and had tried to get James out of his suit to avoid the hydrazine problem just before losing enough air to be knocked out]].

* HeroicSacrifice: When the team tries to launch off of Europa, [[spoiler: William engages in a StupidSacrifice to try blowing the water shielding to soften the landing, resulting in his breaking his neck during the crash]].