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Elite Squad
On the streets of Rio only the elite survive
On the streets of Rio only the elite survive
Action, Crime, Drama - 2007
Elite Squad
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In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Director:
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José Padilha
Cast:
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Maria Ribeiro
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Wagner Moura
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Caio Junqueira
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André Ramiro
,
Milhem Cortaz
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Fernanda Machado
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André Di Mauro
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Fernanda de Freitas
,
Paulo Vilela

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Details

Runtime:
115 min
Release date:
5 Oct 2007
Country:
BR
Languages:
Portuguese
Budget:
$4,000,000
Revenue:
$14,759,148
Awards:
47 wins & 17 nominations total

Top Critics Reviews

rotten:
For nearly two hours, Padilha bombards viewers with senseless, sickening violence for its own sake.
– V.A. Musetto,
New York Post,
19 Sep 2008
rotten:
Elite Squad is a relentlessly ugly, unpleasant, often incoherent assault on the senses from Brazil.
– Manohla Dargis,
New York Times,
19 Sep 2008
rotten:
Elite Squad can't decide whether it wants to pull the lid back on what urban decay has wrought or simply open up a can of whup ass.
– David Fear,
Time Out New York,
17 Sep 2008
fresh:
[Jose Padilha] recariously pitches the squad's brute force as less a necessary evil than the outgrowth of an existing evil -- a no-win situation that mocks liberal ideals and warps conservative pragmatism into domestic terrorism.
– Jim Ridley,
Village Voice,
17 Sep 2008
fresh:
It bears a resemblance to viscerally exciting seventies urban thrillers like The French Connection, in which only the fascists could do what needed to be done.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
15 Sep 2008
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