This year's City Of God, except told from the point of view of the highly-trained military police with guns rather than the slum dwellers.
As a thriller it's not bad, though it's extremely right-wing in tone and carries a distinctly Charles Bronson-esque message (drug dealers deserve to die and it's okay to torture a suspect by suffocating him with a plastic bag and ramming a broomstick up his hole). Again and again, it rams home the utterly ludicrous point that if you smoke a joint you are responsible for drug-related killings.
I was interested to read that it's the most expensive Brazilian movie of all time, because it's not half as handsome-looking as City Of God was. The granite-faced Wagner Moura is very good as the semi-psychotic policeman struggling with stress issues.
As a thriller it's not bad, though it's extremely right-wing in tone and carries a distinctly Charles Bronson-esque message (drug dealers deserve to die and it's okay to torture a suspect by suffocating him with a plastic bag and ramming a broomstick up his hole). Again and again, it rams home the utterly ludicrous point that if you smoke a joint you are responsible for drug-related killings.
I was interested to read that it's the most expensive Brazilian movie of all time, because it's not half as handsome-looking as City Of God was. The granite-faced Wagner Moura is very good as the semi-psychotic policeman struggling with stress issues.
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