José Padilha
Elite Squad
8.0In 1997 Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento has to find a substitute for his position while trying to take down drug dealers and criminals before the Pope visits.
- Director: José Padilha
- Main Cast: Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira, Milhem Cortaz
- Soundtrack: Pedro Bromfman
- Cinematography: Lula Carvalho
- Screenplay: José Padilha
Original title in Brazil is Tropa de Elite.
Cinema Premiere: August 8, 2008
English Reviews
3 english reviews of Elite Squad (2007)
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7 / 10
The jabbing tone, point-blank violence, and jittery visual syntax will be familiar to any fan of "The Shield".
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Negative, no rating
One-note celebration of violence-for-good that plays like a recruitment film for fascist thugs.
- Jay Weissberg
Foreign Reviews
8 foreign reviews of Elite Squad (2007)
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: The actors, led by Wagner Moura as Nascimento, are all outstanding, the situations are vivid, and the questions raised are highly interesting.
- Kerstin GezeliusSwedish: dn.se »
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8 / 10
Translated from swedish: Two hours of drumming violence and aggression with a documentary background but with all the effects of the film. Powerful and disturbing.
- Björn JanssonSwedish: sverigesradio.se »
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Positive, no rating
Translated from swedish: It is an unpleasant but fascinating sensation.
- Erik Augustin PalmSwedish: ng.se »
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6 / 10
Translated from swedish: Gripping and well-acted police thriller
- Johan BergströmSwedish: gamereactor.se »
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6 / 10
Translated from swedish: If they had only scrapped the overly explicit and CONSTANTLY present narrative voice, it would have been easier to like this visually explosive film.
- Jenny RickardsonSwedish: expressen.se »
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4 / 10
Translated from swedish: The ambition behind 'Tropa de Elite' lands somewhere in the political sphere; the film wants to be able to influence, ask questions and ultimately participate in the change of the seemingly corrupt police force and do something about the increasingly segregating society. Unfortunately, this time the choice was to make its voice heard through the aesthetics of violence.
- Mattias LöfrothSwedish: moviezine.se »
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4 / 10
Translated from swedish: Yes, there is an enormous amount of action. But at the same time it is heartless and so messily made, that one has been forced to lay on the protagonist's grinding narrative voice over the whole thing.
- Jan-Olov AnderssonSwedish: aftonbladet.se »
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Box Office
Elite Squad has earned a total of 14 759 148 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).
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⏱️ 115 min
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1. New York Magazine
The captain narrates in a punchy, journalistic style that gives "Elite Squad" an air of sociological realism
- David Edelstein
nymag.com »