Elite Squad
a.k.a. Tropa de Elite
Director:
Jose Padilha
Cast:
Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, Caio Junqueira, Milhem Cortaz
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- DVD Release Date: 10/14/2008
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- Sales Rank: 4,669
Scenes
Scene Index
Disc #1 -- Elite Squad
1. Slums of Rio de Janeiro [4:40]
2. Military Police [4:16]
3. Rookie Officers [4:34]
4. Security for the Pope [4:59]
5. New Friends [5:23]
6. Police Harassment [6:59]
7. Classroom Debate [4:50]
8. Corrupt System [5:56]
9. Dumping Bodies [5:24]
10. Commander's Payoff [5:37]
11. Punishment [5:08]
12. Shootout [6:33]
13. A Replacement [6:19]
14. Training Camp [6:23]
15. Eight Men Remained [4:26]
16. Final Exam [5:29]
17. Changing Plans [6:39]
18. Mistakes [6:00]
19. Revenge [5:29]
20. A Worthy Officer [5:27]
21. End Credits [4:32]
Editorial Reviews
For decades, the South American metropolis of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, has clocked in as staggeringly lethal. Its violence-scarred and blood-strewn ghettos (or "favelas") are regularly patrolled by crazed drug gangs whose open-fire battles with police often spread out onto the main thoroughfares and turn ordinary civilians into casualties. In response, the Brazilian government formed a crack paramilitary force known as the BOPE (Batalhão de Operações Policiais Especiais, or Special Police Operations Battalion) to take matters into its own hands. Now, director José Padilha's social-consciousness drama Tropa de Elite carries viewers inside of BOPE for a scathing indictment of the cycle of violence that permeates Brazilian society, scripted by 12-year-plus BOPE veteran Rodrigo Pimentel. Wagner Moura (Hector Babenco's Carandiru) stars as Captain Nascimento, the leader of a BOPE unit who is seriously considering retirement in the face of his impending fatherhood. In an effort to pick his successor, he looks to two younger recruits, part-time law student André Matias (André Ramiro) and the bellicose hood Neto (Caio Junqueira) -- but soon recognizes that these naïve men will need to seriously mature before one can take the reins. Inevitably, the events that each encounters on the roughshod Brazilian streets -- particularly a trip to clean up some of the neighborhoods in anticipation of the pope's visit -- begin to shape and redefine them in ways that neither can even begin to anticipate. Meanwhile, BOPE grapples with its own internal problems -- particularly the extreme corruption and underhandedness of each squad leader, whose sideline activities range from resupplying weapons to gangs to the racketeering of strip clubs. ~ Nathan Southern, All Movie Guide All Movie Guide
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