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
Reviews
11 reviews of Elite Squad (2007)
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8 / 10
Two hours of drumming violence and aggression with a documentary background but with all the effects of the film. Powerful and disturbing. - Björn Jansson
Swedish: sverigesradio.se »
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Positive, no rating
It is an unpleasant but fascinating sensation. - Erik Augustin Palm
Swedish: ng.se »
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7 / 10
The captain narrates in a punchy, journalistic style that gives "Elite Squad" an air of sociological realism - David Edelstein
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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". - Jim Ridley
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6 / 10
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 Rickardson
Swedish: expressen.se »
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4 / 10
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 Andersson
Swedish: aftonbladet.se »
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4 / 10
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 Löfroth
Swedish: moviezine.se »
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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
Box Office
Elite Squad has earned a total of 14 759 148 dollars from cinemas across the world (the global box office).
1. Dagens Nyheter
The actors, led by Wagner Moura as Nascimento, are all outstanding, the situations are vivid, and the questions raised are highly interesting. - Kerstin Gezelius
Swedish: dn.se »