MPAA Rating: R for strong violence, pervasive language and drug content.
Run time: 115 min
There's no doubt this film is well made. Police corruption and brutality, gangster shooting each other and two young Rio de Janeiro police officers fantasize implementing law and order in the city of gangsters.
The pope is visiting Rio de Janeiro and he needs a good night's sleep, so the local police commander sends Elite Squad to fix things up, including killing low life criminal.
Capt. Nascimento (Wagner Moura) is a captain of an Elite Squad with integrity and Kiefer Sutherland's 24 brutality, but the fact that his wife is pregnant driving him crazy. Nascimento wants someone to replace him, but who among the crowd of corrupt cops could replace him? Two rookies seem fit for the most stressing job, Neto (Caio Junqueira) and the idealist Matias (Andre Ramiro).
Those rookies start from the bottom, working at the police auto shop and witnessing on how cops steal car parts or go to law school and see the ignorance and delusional mind of rich students. As expected, both situation lead to dangerous consequence in the endless cycle of violence.
As these rookies undergo basic training for the elite squad, they realize that this squad is harder and more honest than most cops. After that, they have to invade the slum, and upheld the law, whatever that means.
Expect a vibrant camera work just like Cloverfield and GoodFellas style of violence and the drama of L.A. Confidential.
As an afterthought, I have to say, that after City of God, City of Men and Tropa de Elite, would these internationally acclaimed movies help Brazilian tourism?
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