This was a tense, interesting and gripping police/government movie. Although I do not speak Portuguese, it came across to me that the acting was great. I enjoyed the plot, the characters and its intensity. It was better than its predecessor, Elite Squad. And that is usually not the case.I have only one issue and that is why I gave it a 9 - the dubbing and subtitles. The Elite Squad gave a dubbing option on video but Elite Squad: The Enemy Within did not if you were watching it on video. Also like many subtitled movies WHY IN THE HEAVENS DO THEY USE WHITE CAPTIONS. Half the time you can not read what they are saying. Why not use yellow or red? This blows me away so many times.A good movie to watch but bloody and very gripping. I wish there was an Elite Squad 3

Unlike the first, Elite Squad 2 undertakes a comprehensive analytical power. Analyzes the close relationship between the drug trade, militia, media, police and politics. Unless police operations and dynamics of war, it is scan the hidden links of the institutions, the reality beyond ideology, molecular operations that support the operation of the "system" the haggling, the conspiracies, political alliances, trafficking in influence, bribes, the television manipulations, the financing of election campaigns, yacht trips washed down with whiskey and program mulatto. Action film with elements of melodrama and political cinema, Elite Squad 2 does not shock as the predecessor, that raw and vibrant exhibition of the "dirty work" done in the name of society, but in turn deepens the analysis and, despite the limitations, reaches its targets.

After a prison riot, retired 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.American movies have their share of violence, and stories of crime and corruption. But this film really pushes the envelope and puts America on notice: Brazil has crime, too, and the filmmakers there are not afraid to portray it in all its glory.While the whole film is great at explaining the drug culture and crime in Brazil (fictionalized), the first few scenes really grab the viewer and bring them in. The prison break, the gang-on-gang violence (including a cremation)... this is gritty, action-packed stuff.

I Must say that after the great success this movie achieved in Brazil, The sequel I was expecting, was a B list movie filmed just to capitalize the franchise "Tropa de Elite" and to cash in the largest amount of money the producers could possibly do.I couldn't be more wrong!This movie is so much better than the first! Wagner Moura acting was just flawless, the plot is completely well connected and actually, no movie made me sit on my sofa wondering what would happen in the end in a very long time.10/10