Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (2010)

7.5/10

Exciting, elegantly filmed but a too familiar storyline

Plot: After a prison riot, former-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.

Written by the same person who wrote City Of God (which I HIGHLY RECOMMEND!)

Exciting film that doesn't rely on over use of gore and violence to entertain. It is a film that is grounded in politics, and morales. Elite Squad is about corrupt cops, officials that will do whatever it takes to get votes and the people caught in the middle. This story formular is nothing new, as it has been used in many films, but Elite Squad: Enemy Within is able to create an exciting environment out of this formula.

The use of flashbacks and quick cuts between two events makes this film quite edgy.