Pokes and prods the viewer to watch the brutal, indiscriminate methods of Rio's SWAT-like cops and then demands only one conclusion: That cops in Rio's drug-infested slums must do what they do and if that means rampant point-blank executions, so be it.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
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New York Magazine (Vulture) by David Edelstein
The captain narrates in a punchy, journalistic style that gives Elite Squad an air of sociological realism--it bears a resemblance to viscerally exciting seventies urban thrillers like "The French Connection."
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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
A relentlessly ugly, unpleasant, often incoherent assault on the senses from Brazil.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Ray Bennett
Poorly structured and at times incoherent.
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It boggles the mind to think that Elite Squad won the top prize at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival in February.