Elite Squad
by Jos? Padilha
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Actor: Andr? Ramiro, Caio Junqueira, Fernanda Machado, Maria Ribeiro, Wagner MouraDirector: Jos? Padilha
Brand: Elite
Writer: Jos? Padilha
Producer: Bia Castro
Writer: Andr? Batista
Writer: Br?ulio Mantovani
Writer: John Kaylin
Writer: Luiz Eduardo Soares
Writer: Rodrigo Pimentel
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Portuguese (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Dubbed)
Format: Color, Dubbed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-28
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Weinstein Company
DVD Reviews of Elite Squad
DVD Review: Worst Blu-ray (and/or DVD) movie I own
Summary: 1 Stars
I totally agree with John Craig. The acting is poor, and there is no storyline. The hand-held camera makes you dizzy and the picture quality is amateur/Super 8 mm at best. Why the movie had to come out on Blu-ray is a mystery.
Furthermore there is no thematic concept, and the movie wavers between social realist drama and reality TV type documentary, and one wonders, what they are trying to show/tell us. A dismal screenplay is not really helped by a constant voice-over narration.
Why the jury at the Berlin Film Festival gave this unintelligent, uninspired movie the grand prize can only be explained -- if it wasn't for political correctedness reasons -- when you believe them to be all blind.
If you like this kind of movie watch (or buy) CITY OF GOD or PERRO COME PERRO
DO NOT spend money on ELITE SQUAD.
DVD Review: Tropa da Elite....
Summary: 5 Stars
I had the pleasure of viewing this film at a film festival in my country. I'm a fan of Brazillian cinema so I had to take a look at it...Also because it was about BOPE, I was intrigued. I learned about BOPE in the special features section of City of God. During the filming of this movie the film crew was robbed at gunpoint of their guns, real and fake, and some of their equipment. This may partially explain why their equipment didn't seem up to par. Nevertheless BOPE is considered to be the most deadly paramilitary force in Latin America, and they have all the high tech goodies that any Western paramilitary force has.I enjoyed this movie immensely, it was full of bluster, machismo, bambadade and intensity, great acting and a great script.DVD Review: Elite Squad
Summary: 4 Stars
Very good movie, but sadly, the translation for the subtitles are very bad...Still worthy to watchDVD Review: revealing but not quite realistic
Summary: 3 Stars
It is an interesting movie but I'm suspicious that the film exaggerates the hipocrisy of the middle class. In doing so it legitimizes the police violence more than it perhaps intends to. It seems slanted towards the police viewpoint. The direct relationship between the students and NGOs and the drug traffickers has a feeling of being contrived. Violence is not necessarily a substitute for realism, and on first viewing the film one may get the idea that despite or because of how disturbing it is, it directly represents a social reality. For example, those working in NGOs (probably) are not always also engaged in drug dealing. The entire drug trade is (probably) not subsidized by rich students.
On the other hand the themes in the movie are quite powerful and the best part of the movie imho is when an undercover police officer attends a class on Foucault. The movie is also not without a coolness factor. Certain parallels with Full Metal Jacket could also be made at this point.
DVD Review: MUST SEE!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This film was very well made, great storyline, even better acting and just enough action!
Description of Elite Squad
An action-packed thriller that follows an elite police battalion (BOPE) tasked with cleaning up a drug-ridden Rio de Janeiro slum in advance of the pope's 1997 visit. A team of trained killers, they struggle to do what's right in a corrupt system and dangerous neighborhood.Though Jos? Padilha's action-packed crime drama won the top prize at the Berlin Film Festival, a steady stream of controversy and acclaim has followed in its wake. Some critics have even accused the director of promoting fascism, while Padilha (Bus 174) contends that Elite Squad argues against police brutality. Like Vic Mackey, who heads up The Shield's LA strike force, narrator Captain Nascimento (Wagner Moura) heads up Rio de Janeiro's Police Special Operations Battalion (BOPE). It's 1997, the Pope arrives for a visit in six months, and BOPE will stop at nothing to reduce crime in the favelas. The way they see it, drug traffickers have them outmanned and outgunned, so there's no point in playing by the rules. With their black uniforms and berets, the Skulls certainly cut an imposing figure. New police recruits Neto (Caio Junqueira) and aspiring lawyer Matias (Andr? Ramiro) turn to Nascimento when their efforts to operate by the book only lead to frustration (Matias was inspired by author/law student/BOPE member Andr? Batista). The burned-out captain sees his salvation in the two childhood friends; as soon as he selects a replacement, he plans to leave the force and spend time with his pregnant wife. Nascimento may find his man, but the ending is far from happy. Brutal and bleakly funny, Elite Squad depicts 1990s Rio as Dant?'s Ninth Circle of Hell. Nonetheless, Brazilians made the film an even bigger sensation than City of God, to which it serves as an essential companion piece. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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