Glorification of police violence dominates this story about the drug wars in the incredibly poverty stricken slums of Brazil. It could have been a good character driven movie about the social misery the poor people are suffering from in these slums of Brazil, but instead the viewpoint from the corrupt violent police is being taken. Violence reigns over character development, that's my biggest gripe.
Solely judged as an "entertaining" movie, it is a suspenseful, though somewhat chaotic action movie, with some character development, yet barely enough though to be able to really sympathize with either one of the characters.
The story: a continuous police terror raid on the poverty stricken slums of Brazil. Extremely violent, to the point where so many people get killed one after the other it becomes numbing. Still quite impressive in a grim, violent way.
Solely judged as an "entertaining" movie, it is a suspenseful, though somewhat chaotic action movie, with some character development, yet barely enough though to be able to really sympathize with either one of the characters.
The story: a continuous police terror raid on the poverty stricken slums of Brazil. Extremely violent, to the point where so many people get killed one after the other it becomes numbing. Still quite impressive in a grim, violent way.