Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)

Charming and brutal

Blistering performances.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

When I was researching a certain film to watch, I wanted to see something with a lot of action and adventure. "Elite Squad: The Enemy Within" had some of the greatest action scenes I have ever seen. It was an all around great movie. Though at times, it was hard to follow, because they spoke so fast that I could barely read all the subtitles. Another criticism I have for the film is that it did get somewhat complicated at times. There were a lot of moving pieces that were happening all at once. It also did not help that a lot of the actors in the film looked very similar. Other than that, I loved the movie. I really liked the ending. The main character, Colonel Nascimento, was willing to do anything in his power to get revenge for the near death of his son. At first he resorted to violent ideas to get his revenge. Later, he switched to being a more level- headed guy, and he went after the militia by going through court. It was one of my favorite parts when he called out all the crooked representatives on court at once and claimed that he spoke for 3 hours straight. I would highly recommend this film to someone who appreciates intense action and adventure films.

Elite Squad is a movie about mafia and cops, but not just about it, the movie pass the good versus bad, is a sophisticate analysis of Brazilian society. Made with a strong social sense about politics and realistic habits, the history shows how compress is solve the corruption in Brazil. The main point is about two opposite men, Coronel Nascimento and congressman Diogo Fraga, Nascimento is head of elite squad BOPE, a no limit group of cops, and Fraga is human rights teacher. They are opposite in methodology, but achieve the same goal, destroy a systematic corruption of money and power. The movies exposure the corruption of police, NGO, Congress and everyone, the best point the movies shows is about how complex the system of corruption and power is, and how the status quo protect the bad guys from justice. Padilha, the director made a movie to show the obvious, but it is exactly why this is one of the best Brazilian movies about society.

"Elite Squad: The Enemy Within" is a crime movie in which we watch a man who is a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeirois is swept into a political dispute in which they want to make him confess about some things that he did not do. Before that position he was a Captain of a special team called BOPE.I liked this movie very much because of the plot which I found simply magnificent. The direction of this movie which made by José Padilha was equally good and in many moments you could not understand if it was a movie or a real life events. I also liked the interpretation of Wagner Moura who played as Lt. Colonel Nascimento and he was simply outstanding on his part. Another interpretations that I want to mention are Irandhir Santos' who played as Diogo Fraga, André Ramiro who played as Captain André Matias and André Mattos who played as Fortunato.Finally I have to say that "Elite Squad: The Enemy Within" is a great movie to watch because it shows many truths about Brazil and about corruption in general. The only movie with which I can compare is "City of God" which I believe is just a masterpiece. I strongly recommend both of them.

Both the first an this second "Tropa de Elite-film" has got great reviews before cinema screening here in Norway. This second has been an unbelievable cinema success in home country Brazil, and I really understand why both have been commercial successes, both in cinemas and later on with DVD, VOD and so on.I thought the first was great, but this is even better. Many has given good words about this film, but I'd like to express that I think this sublime film making in any way. And after the appraisals of th firs, it's very difficult to make th second live up to the first, and even exceed the huge expectations.This film goes to the core of the main problems of one of the countries which have had the best economical development as well as getting more people out of poverty. Corruption is the main theme of this film, more than drug trafficking. No true story, but acted out so that you really believe it is.Corruption is without doubt the most sincere problem the world faces today. Not only to stop narc-problems and trafficking, but also all the other reasons for attracting money and power, as cutting down rain forest or all kinds of trade. A huge problem, spreading like no other decease.Rarely a narrative voice does I go me, however, in this film it's most appropriate. If you want to see an exciting film with no Hollywood nonsense, which lingers in your mind afterwards, the this is one to watch. You can see this without seeing the first "Trope de Elite", but if you got the chance to see the other first, then do, in promise that the second is even better than the first.