re: Europa Report (SPOILERS)

I can understand not wanting to see the monster and I usually prefer for movie makers to leave more up to the viewers imagination

But in this case I like that they showed it at the end. It would have made all the sacrifices and deaths of the crew seem very hollow and trivial without confirmed proof of extraterrestrials.

Without the final shot it would still be debatable what caused all the troubles the crew experienced. And with the entire crew killed on the mission it would be decades before a similar mission was even discussed without the proof that there is indeed life on Europa.