Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 42
Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 3
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is a bleak, violent descent into the Brazilian underbelly, ripping into the favelas with unstoppable and kinetic force.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 14 | Rotten: 1
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is a bleak, violent descent into the Brazilian underbelly, ripping into the favelas with unstoppable and kinetic force.
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The sprawling slum that towers over Rio de Janeiro is one of the most dangerous places on Earth, and as the head of Rio's BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion), Captain Nascimento (Wagner Moura) has seen his share of intense situations. When a BOPE mission to stop a jail riot ends in violence, Nascimento finds his job on the line--and BOPE accused of a massacre by human rights activists. But a public fed up with the violence and gangs that plague Rio loves it, and Nascimento finds himself
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Cast
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Wagner Moura
Captain Nascimento, Lt.... -
André Ramiro
Captain André Matias, M... -
André Mattos
Fortunato -
Sandro Rocha
Major Rocha aka Russo, ... -
Maria Ribeiro
Rosane -
Milhem Cortaz
Fábio, Lieutenant-Colon... -
Irandhir Santos
Diogo Fraga, Fraga -
Pedro Van-Held
Rafael -
Tainá Müller
Clara -
Seu Jorge
Beirada -
Fabrício Boliveira
Marreco -
Emílio Orcillo Netto
Valmir -
Jovem Cerebral
Braço -
Bruno Delia
Azevedo
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All Critics (42) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (39) | Rotten (3)
The pace is quick, the violence is rough, and the visual style is documentary as Padilha hammers home his point: Someone is forever in the pocket of someone else as The System constantly adapts to protect itself.
Top CriticWhen this Enemy Within settles into key action sequences, such as a stunning nighttime ambush or a daytime battle against Fabio, it becomes wildly entertaining.
Throttles forward with remarkable aplomb and easily leaves the original in the dust.
Elite Squad is just urgent and complex enough to make it clear violence is more than a matter for academic debate.
A fast-paced, hard-hitting Brazilian police thriller.
Jammed with cliches but completely engrossing.
The entire last half hour is just incredibly disingenuous.
Padilha's film offers no easy answers, but the title is a tip off as to where at least his sympathies lie.
A film that grabs you by the shirtfront and rarely lets up its grip.
The Enemy Within, it's not just the cops and robbers who are corrupt and greedy and barbarous, but also politicians and media representatives. The "system" is everywhere.
Even if it's not as smart as it supposes itself to be, [the film] is still smart enough to be more than a decent way to waste time.
An epic crime drama from Rio de Janeiro with a thrilling pace and an over-the-top body count.
Hard-hitting Brazilian thriller about police corruption, politics and crime colliding in Rio's favelas and corridors of power and law enforcement is as intelligent as it is entertaining.
Moving to its own throbbing beat, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within offers an exhilaratingly bleak vision of what it describes as "an articulation of loathsome interests," in which the well-meaning suffer...
Audience Reviews for Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
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- Captain Nascimento: I was lucky I identified my real enemies in time. When they came for me, I was not alone.
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- Fábio: If you wanna screw me start by kissing me!
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- Beirada: [before setting up fire on the rival drug dealer] They fatten up the pig, now we gonna roast it.
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- Lt. Colonel Nascimento: The truth is that my war against the system was just beginning, and this time would be personal.
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- Clara: The Governor's campaign materials are here...
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- Lt. Colonel Nascimento: You have to fight if you want to win.
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Foreign Titles
- Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de Elite - O Inimigo Agora E Outro) (DE)
- Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (UK)
