Storyline
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.
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70
The captain narrates in a punchy, journalistic style that gives Elite Squad an air of sociological realism--it bears a resemblance to viscerally exciting seventies urban thrillers like "The French Connection."
70
Village Voice
This latest pounding slice-of-thug-life thriller from Brazil packs the same cinematic firepower as "City of God," only on the other side of the law.
40
Variety
A one-note celebration of violence-for-good that plays like a recruitment film for fascist thugs.
30
The Hollywood Reporter
Poorly structured and at times incoherent.
25
It boggles the mind to think that Elite Squad won the top prize at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival in February.
