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Elite Squad

Tropa de Elite

2007

José Padilha

Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, André Ramiro, Fernanda Machado ...

7.5

37,482

Action. Drama Between 1997 and present day, "Tropa de Elite" shows the actual security situation of Rio de Janeiro. Without enough resources from the government, the military police always have to handle situations with a carioca "jeitinho"(illicit way) to make things work. Illicit way that corrupt the badly equipped and paid police. The drug mafia at Rio de Janeiro´s slums uses war weapons - snipers, granades and anti-aerial instead of pistols. At ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Rosamund Witcher Empire	"Despite the voiceover, Padilha has created a shocking insight into a world in which corrupt cops slug it out against drug dealers but, ultimately, nobody wins. (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"A one-note celebration of violence-for-good that plays like a recruitment film for fascist thugs (...) [The] omnipresent narration (...) will alienate intelligent viewers."	NEG
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"The acting is universally strong (...) Intelligent, energetic, and immensely watchable."	POS
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"'Elite Squad' is so strikingly red in tooth and claw, and so breathlessly energised, that it demands to be seen."	POS
United States	V.A. Musetto New York Post	"For nearly two hours, Padilha bombards viewers with senseless, sickening violence for its own sake. A little character development might lessen the harshness, but Padilha (...) will have none of it."	NEG

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