English title: Elite Squad.
Synopsis: In Rio de Janeiro, the Military Police Special Operations Unit (BOPE) specializes in storming the hillside slums to fight drug trafficking; their priority is to capture the sophisticated guns used by the criminals. Captain Nascimento is a member of that unit and is looking to get out of field work, but to do that he must first find someone to replace him. Two Military Police cadets, the first one reckless and trigger-happy and the other one more intellectual and with aspirations to becoming a lawyer, are the main candidates for the position.
Appraisal: The screenplay of this film is well structured and well paced; roughly speaking, the first half is more about small incidents and the second half is more about big ones. The technique is unpolished, forgoing editing in favor of rapid panning among the characters -- it's slightly annoying. The acting is serviceable. The film has been called biased, which I'm not qualified to judge, and one-sided, which it necessarily is, and it's no worse for that. This film has convinced me that drugs will never be legalized, and that it is possible to keep the war against them going indefinitely; it is just a matter of raising the firepower to match that of the criminals --indefinitely.
Rating: 60
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