The film is based on the real situation of the Military Police of Rio de Janeiro. To those who live in Rio, it is more like watching the news than a movie. This is the depressing life of the policemen and slum comunity. If only the State could understand the message...
The problem is: the State does not have the power to fight drug trafficking, because the State created it ! It should have been fought decades ago. Now, neither the police or the politicians have the power to fight crime in Rio.
4 Reviews
A failed attempt to make a new Elite Squad
pedro3800855 February 2023
Please bear in mind that Elite Squad is the best movie ever written, produced and distributed in Brazilian history. It's the standard that teachers should use to teach Acting anywhere in college. It's the ultimate masterpiece of Latin movie.
Given that success, the format is often copied by other titles trying to gauge on the success attained by Elite Squad to drive viewers to new ticket sales. This title fails to do that. Acting is very weak, the story itself is very simple and the outcome is unrealistic. It lacks the conceptual presence that previous movies had, connecting with real cops to narrate a history that is not too much Hollywoodian but actually connected to Rio's day to day reality.
Given that success, the format is often copied by other titles trying to gauge on the success attained by Elite Squad to drive viewers to new ticket sales. This title fails to do that. Acting is very weak, the story itself is very simple and the outcome is unrealistic. It lacks the conceptual presence that previous movies had, connecting with real cops to narrate a history that is not too much Hollywoodian but actually connected to Rio's day to day reality.
Straight To the point
Fingolfin231 January 2022
Warning: Spoilers
This show has a story, a message and a good point of view.
As a stranger trying to learn the culture of Brasil and communities here, it helped me understand the people living in favela and the police.
It was pretty scary they move in favela like 3-4 people with arms. As a veteran you can't do that. You are risking your life among those buildings, open target!! Idk if it's like that in real life, but man! Police's job is mission impossible in that area.
Someone please tell me if any gang can enter with heavy rifles and face the police in bakery like they showed in the movie??
As a stranger trying to learn the culture of Brasil and communities here, it helped me understand the people living in favela and the police.
It was pretty scary they move in favela like 3-4 people with arms. As a veteran you can't do that. You are risking your life among those buildings, open target!! Idk if it's like that in real life, but man! Police's job is mission impossible in that area.
Someone please tell me if any gang can enter with heavy rifles and face the police in bakery like they showed in the movie??
Fabulous and Tense...
RosanaBotafogo29 May 2022
Fabulous, but you have to prepare your heart for the avalanche of feelings in the face of stark reality... It makes us question, especially for me because I tend to be leftist, for civil rights, social assistance and the like, and in the midst of this analysis coincidentally this week the federal highway police murdered, asphyxiated in the van, like a Nazi gas chamber, a disabled man for not wearing a helmet... Tense... Tense and intense... An incredible and realistic national production...
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