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Will test the ideological mettle of law-and-order conservatives and lefty peaceniks alike.
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Slant Magazine by Diego Semerene
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within is pure pedagogic bliss.
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New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
The movie's intensity is given crucial depth via Moura's somber and unshowy performance.
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Padilha channeled national frustrations into zeitgeist entertainment. The follow-up, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, has less success than the first installment in achieving that aim, but still keeps the snazzy combination of spectacle and polemics in check.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
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.
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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.
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The New York Times by Stephen Holden
The carnage, although explicit and frequent, is not grotesquely overdone. But except for Mr. Moura's Nascimento, the movie doesn't have the same richness of characters. Psychologically he is the whole show; the rest are stereotypes.