That was an excellent one.

Not even bad in a good way

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Great crime-drama from Brazil. Set in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, Elite Squad is gritty and uncompromising. Plot isn't entirely watertight, but the pace and realism make up for any plot flaws. Direction is solid.Good performances all round.

2286/5000 "Tropa de Elite", the purest and crude record of Brazilian society, hypocrisy, profit, partiality and innocence, where policemen mistreat "innocents" to arrest bandits, and rich people finance crime and indirectly kill police with a pacifist speech. A script that talks about traffic, crime and favela by a different angle, the angle of the police, more specifically the BOPE, a special regiment of the military police, who tells us the story is Captain Nascimento, who mixes with the story of Mathias and Neto, young honest police officers who seek to fight organized crime, the elite troop script is accurate, but not perfect, it has many parallel plots that end up not being deepened, but it has a great construction of characters besides being brutally honest , even sometimes abusing scenes and phrases of effect - which eventually made the movie explode on its release. The morale of "Elite Troop" is that we are all wrong, there is no cure or a solution, no matter the side, any action taken ends up being harmful to someone, and often, to someone you want to help, before exploding the fashion of polarization in Brazil, the Padilha film already discussed concepts that are now completely disturbed, José Padilha directs using techniques of Martin Scorsese, sometimes even better than the American director himself, with scenes of incredible shootings and absurdly verisimilitude, German of a camera use without tripe magnifico, not to mention the great narrations in off that serve as a perfect support for the script, not to mention the precise and striking soundtrack, which reflects in an accurate way what is the long. The film is also very well acted, with main highlights for Wagner Moura and Fernanda Machado, besides the sober and mature performance of Andre Ramiro. Tropa de Elite is the movie that opens Jose Padilha to the world, the good and competent director is released to the Holywoodian market, where he ends up not doing well, but ends up finding his talent again when directing series for netflix. "Tropa De Elite" is not perfect, but it is a film that exposes much of Brazilian culture to the world, not only negatively, precisely because of this, "Tropa De Elite" is difficult to be seen by foreigners because the film is very, very Brazilian.

This movie told about elite squads of police officers, BOPE as like as SWAT in America perhaps. BOPE are the police officers who can not be bribed by the criminals or drug dealers. They are police officers who frighten criminals or drug dealers . In this movie, we can see the "real life" of criminals in Brazil, who can bring guns anywhere and anytime. Many police officers can be bribed easily by drug dealers. Nascimento hated criminals and he wanted to eliminate them by joining BOPE. But he must resign from BOPE because "big trouble" in his family so he must choose his successor between Neto or Matias. This movie is very interesting. it's worthy to watch this movie

It's the best police movie I've ever seen. It'so realistic, specially the shots. The scene was also perfect!Basically the movie describes the fight between drug dealers and corrupt cops against the good police officers, some of them from the military police force and most of them from BOPE. Although it shows how the corruption of the Military Police Force works out in Brazil, how the system is used against itself and makes everything so difficult that it's almost impossible for honest people to deal with their own personal issues without dealing with corruption. And by the way, that's entirely true. The scene that i like very much is when Captain Nascimento interrogates people. The camera and editing are great, and the actors gave their best action. Two thumbs up...