Tropa De Elite (Elite Squad)

Times Watched: 1
Watched With: Mr Rider @ GV Cinema Europa (27/09)
Snacks: None
Hidden Scene After Movie: No

"Dagger to the skull and nothing to the wallet."

The slums of Rio Di Janeiro are ridden with drug dealers and thugs. Drug dealers and thugs who co-exist with corrupt police officers who accept bribes. And the youth suffer the effects of such corruptions of society.

Capitão Nascimento (Wagner Moura) is a captain in the Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais (BOPE). His wife is expecting their first child and his job is making it harder and harder to fulfill his role as husband and father.
It is time for Captain Nascimento to find a replacement. Time to find a badass who would be tough enough to lead BOPE.

In step 2 best friends Neto (Caio Junqueira) & André Matias (André Ramiro). One is ready to pull the trigger anytime to get the job done while the other chooses reason and logic over violence and even aspires to be a lawyer.
Both are cops who are tired of the corruption around them and decide to join BOPE to wage war against the dealers and the corrupt cops.

Can one of them be the tough new leader of BOPE and replace Captain Nascimento?
Can Nascimento bear to be replaced after being in BOPE for so long?

holy shit this movie was not bad balls.
the action is gritty and the plot is engaging. I guess the fact that you get an insight into how it might really work there in the slums is a very appealing idea.

You will tend to put yourself in both the shoes of the poor people in the slums who have no choice but to turn to that life due to poverty & then in the shoes of the BOPE officers who have no choice but to resort to brute violence to get the message through amidst all the corrupiton and greed.

People who liked City of God will like this.

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