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This is a good movie, but I have to say I expected much more because of what I had read and listened about it.The actor who plays Capitain Nascimento is great, I think he deserves to win many awards for this role.
A brutal, unwavering & violent dive into the criminal underworld existing within the slums of Rio de Janerio, Elite Squad is a semi-fictional account of Brazil's own SWAT team, known as BOPE, and while the film became a cultural phenomenon in its country during its time of release, I fail to see anything that's so impressive about it.Set in the late 1990s, Elite Squad (also known as Tropa de Elite) follows the leader of Rio de Janerio's Special Police Operations Squad who is looking for his replacement as he intends to retire from the field soon and take the job of training new recruits.
This movie is and his successor are more actual than never, they describe our reality so well that it is shocking to see it on the movie screen, this movie bring points that society until now dont solved, like how to deal with drugs, corruption and violence. and bring points of view of diferent people living this situation.
Another movie about the external world of organized inadequacies, this one set in Brazil and also about deep-rooted suffering in the cogs that give rise to that world. We race through, seeing with a certain narrative eye that tries to make sense, so let's see a few observations made by that eye.
One of the most emblematic films in the history of national cinema. There has never been, nor will there be, another feature film that captures the socioeconomic reality of Brazilian corners with such veracity.
Life and death are separated by just a moment. We choose to live in a certain way, to achieve specific goals.
Intelligent dialogue, great acting, highly effective cinematography, and an unusually cerebrally engaging plot for an 'action' movie, make Elite Squad one of the best movies that most people haven't seen.
I have never been to south for the Equator and the Portuguese language is unfamiliar to me as well - thus, I have no reliable personal knowledge of the life in the Rio de Janeiro metropolis. However, large cities with fast growth are prone to crime and violence, and police forces are under-financed in "calmer" countries and well.