Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)

Padilha's work on this movie is incredible not only because he produced a movie with Hollywood's top notch-quality, but also because we succeed in capturing Brazil's social reality so well.I've watched this movie more that 15 times (the first I was on a movie theater so full people were literally sitting on the stairs) and I can say for sure that it is a very complex, detailed and well thought story, bringing in one single piece all the dynamics that work into Rio de Janeiro's political scene.All the action scenes are very very real and so goddamn exciting; one particular is so vivid that I just put it on replay in your mind after you watch it. It's the best movie I've ever seen.

After a prison riot, retired Captain Nascimento, now a high ranking security officer in Rio de Janeiro, is swept into a bloody political dispute that involves government officials and paramilitary groups.American movies have their share of violence, and stories of crime and corruption. But this film really pushes the envelope and puts America on notice: Brazil has crime, too, and the filmmakers there are not afraid to portray it in all its glory.While the whole film is great at explaining the drug culture and crime in Brazil (fictionalized), the first few scenes really grab the viewer and bring them in. The prison break, the gang-on-gang violence (including a cremation)... this is gritty, action-packed stuff.

But before watching this you have to watch the first even though the stories aren't really too connected. In my book this is tied with city of god for best foreign crime film. And for crime films of all time for me this film also takes a spot in my top 15 best crime films of all time.This film takes the same aspects from the first films and does that and then some I rated the first film as a 9 but is close to a 10 but I find this film more superior as far as story and complexity and even tragedy giving this film an easy 10/10. But when it comes to overall stories of corruption of cops and politicians this film takes the number one place.Pretty much anybody could enjoy this film as long as you aren't to squeamish with violence. But the film has believable characters and a story that seems real but isn't. Anybody who does read this review I highly recommend this film for a watch but of course only if you have seen the first.

Both the first an this second "Tropa de Elite-film" has got great reviews before cinema screening here in Norway. This second has been an unbelievable cinema success in home country Brazil, and I really understand why both have been commercial successes, both in cinemas and later on with DVD, VOD and so on.I thought the first was great, but this is even better. Many has given good words about this film, but I'd like to express that I think this sublime film making in any way. And after the appraisals of th firs, it's very difficult to make th second live up to the first, and even exceed the huge expectations.This film goes to the core of the main problems of one of the countries which have had the best economical development as well as getting more people out of poverty. Corruption is the main theme of this film, more than drug trafficking. No true story, but acted out so that you really believe it is.Corruption is without doubt the most sincere problem the world faces today. Not only to stop narc-problems and trafficking, but also all the other reasons for attracting money and power, as cutting down rain forest or all kinds of trade. A huge problem, spreading like no other decease.Rarely a narrative voice does I go me, however, in this film it's most appropriate. If you want to see an exciting film with no Hollywood nonsense, which lingers in your mind afterwards, the this is one to watch. You can see this without seeing the first "Trope de Elite", but if you got the chance to see the other first, then do, in promise that the second is even better than the first.