Directed by Jose Padilha
Staring Wagner Moura, Caio Junqueira & Andre Ramiro
Rating MA
Score 6/6

Based on the events before the Pope’s visit to Rio de Janeiro in 1997. Captain Nascimento is assigned to eliminate the dangers of drug dealers in a dangerous slum near where the Pope wants to stay. Nascimento also needs to find his replacement as he wants to quit comand and become a trainer.

This is the type of movie that will shock you, to my knowledge there isn’t a “police movie” made in Hollywood that will be able to live up to this movie. Tropa de Elite or Elite squad will grab hold of you and will not go till the credits. Writer Braulio Mantovani and director Jose Padilha should be congratulated for their frank depiction of the Special Police Operations Battalion of the Rio de Janeiro Military Police (BOPE), this was possible because the film is based on the book Elite da Tropa.