Elite Squad: The Enemy Within

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)

  • 95% of critics liked it
    (41 reviews)

  • 91% of users liked it
    (5,913 ratings)

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,… More

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Unrated, 1 hr. 56 min.
Directed By
José Padilha
Written By
Braulio Mantovani, José Padilha, Rodrigo Pimentel
Genres
Drama, Action & Adventure, Art House & International
In Theaters
Nov 11, 2011 Limited
On DVD
Feb 14, 2012
Variance Films

Critic Reviews

  • Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

    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.

  • Robert Koehler, Variety

    When this Enemy Within settles into key action sequences, such as a stunning nighttime ambush or a daytime battle against Fabio, it becomes wildly entertaining.

  • William Goss, Film.com

    Throttles forward with remarkable aplomb and easily leaves the original in the dust.

  • Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail

    Elite Squad is just urgent and complex enough to make it clear violence is more than a matter for academic debate.

  • Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter

    A fast-paced, hard-hitting Brazilian police thriller.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Al S


    It`s The Wire meets The Departed. A masterpiece. An unforgettable and breathtaking action film, they dont get better than this. It`s a pure slam-bang knockout of an action movie. It packs an intense blow of story, characters, politics and realism into one explosive tour de force. A… More

  • Lorenzo v


    <i>"They fatten up the pig, now we gonna roast it."</i> After a prison riot, Captain Nascimiento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.… More

  • Stuart B


    It's not often a sequel is better than the first film, even less so when the first movie was as good as Tropa De Elite was. Yet this movie beats it in every way. Easily one of the best movies I have ever seen. Fantastic. I cannot recommend it highly enough.

  • Alireza M


    Cant believe this piece of trash is among Imdb's top 250.It's only a commercial movie with artificial characters and unrealistic situations and dialogues .Director only used violence as a device for impressing the violent audience. But even the bloody scenes aren't… More

  • Lucas M


    A maior bilheteria do cinema nacional. Um filme que fala de forma convincente a corrupção na politica brasileira, sendo ela, enfrentada pelo heroi do longa.

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