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ELITE SQUAD: THE ENEMY WITHIN (TROPA DE ELITE: O INIMIGO AGORA E OUTRO) Movie Reviews
Story: Brazilian Portuguese language action drama about a police captain whose job is on the line when a mission to stop a jail riot ends in violence. Cast: Wagner Moura, André Ramiro, André Mattos, Sandro Rocha Director: José Padilha Opened: November 11, 2011 On DVD: February 14, 2012 From: Variance Films Length: 2 hr. 0 min.
Out On DVD
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de elite: O inimigo agora e outro), Very Good Reviews Key Cities
Updated: Thu, Dec 8 2011, 05:39pm
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Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de elite: O inimigo agora e outro) played in key cities to very good reviews. • Rene Rodriguez wrote in the Miami Herald, "Propulsive, hyper-violent and ridiculously exciting... for all his social concerns, [director José] Padilha is first and foremost an entertainer." • And Lisa Schwarzbaum wrote in Entertainment Weekly, "The pace is quick, the violence is rough, and the visual style is documentary..."   More Reviews Below...

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de elite: O inimigo agora e outro)
Positive Reviews
(18 Reviews,  reviews below)
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Reviews & Quotes (18)

BROAD NATIONAL PRESS (2 Reviews)
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: OUTSTANDING (cg)
"The pace is quick, the violence is rough, and the visual style is documentary... In South America, 'The Enemy Within' is the most popular movie of all time." (Read the full review...)
206 words, 11/11/11

Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: VERY GOOD (cg)
"...so angry and specifically political, it's hard to believe they got away with making it.... one of the biggest hits in the history of Brazil and South America. If this is accurate, Costa Rica is about as far south as you can go and find an honest cop." (Read the full review...)
833 words, 12/02/11
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (10 Reviews)
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD
"...seems like a conscious effort to rebut accusations that its forerunner ['Elite Squad'] was fascistic in its iron-fisted law-and-order view of how to deal with Rio de Janeiro's drug-infested favelas." (Read the full review...)
566 words, 11/11/11

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg)
"[Director] José Padilha's style is so urgent and immediate that you almost feel like you're in the midst of an especially advanced video game.... that's a compliment: The movie's intensity is given crucial depth via [Wagner] Moura's somber and unshowy performance." (Read the full review...)
195 words, 11/11/11

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: FAIR
"Complexity isn't this movie's buzzword... it resembles a flow chart splattered with blood and spittle, more static and smeary in tone than the finger-pointing corrective director-cowriter Jose Padilha intended." (Read the full review...)
233 words, 11/18/11

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: VERY GOOD (cg)
"...blistering... A crackling musical score and eye-popping cinematography add to the nonstop ferocity... Wagner Moura is charismatic as the head of the titular police unit." (Read the full review...)
197 words, 11/11/11

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: VERY GOOD (cg)
"...so angry and specifically political, it's hard to believe they got away with making it.... one of the biggest hits in the history of Brazil and South America. If this is accurate, Costa Rica is about as far south as you can go and find an honest cop." (Read the full review...)
833 words, 12/02/11

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT)
"...will test the ideological mettle of law-and-order conservatives and lefty peaceniks alike. That's a virtue, because though 'Elite Squad 2' plays footsie with both socialism and fascism, it's never easy to peg." (Read the full review...)
255 words, 11/09/11

Greg Quill, Toronto Star: VERY GOOD (cg)
"...morality is a relative concept, and there are times during this immensely enjoyable action picture when you'll find yourself questioning your impulses and responses to what's happening on screen." (Read the full review...)
568 words, 11/24/11

Liam Lacey, Toronto Globe & Mail: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg)
"...in the primitive-but-effective spirit of a Charles Bronson revenge flick... just urgent and complex enough to make it clear violence is more than a matter for academic debate." (Read the full review...)
581 words, 11/25/11

Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg)
"...a gruesome and entertaining action movie that earnestly tries for more." (Read the full review...)
226 words, 11/24/11
KEY CITIES (3 Reviews)
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star-Tribune: OUTSTANDING (cg)
"Absolutely riveting, a savvy police corruption melodrama and a manic, high-tension action thriller rolled into one." (Read the full review...)
205 words, 12/09/11

Shawn Levy, Portland Oregonian: VERY GOOD (cg)
"It's fast, it's sure, it's violent and it's fun.... The occasional operatic note seems part of the Brazilian DNA of the thing, which is, finally, a selling point for a film that grabs you by the shirtfront and rarely lets up its grip." (Read the full review...)
207 words, 12/09/11

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: VERY GOOD (cg)
"Propulsive, hyper-violent and ridiculously exciting... for all his social concerns, [director José] Padilha is first and foremost an entertainer." (Read the full review...)
511 words, 12/02/11
ALTERNATIVE/INDIE PRESS (5 Reviews)
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice/LA Weekly: GOOD (NOT GREAT)
"...will test the ideological mettle of law-and-order conservatives and lefty peaceniks alike. That's a virtue, because though 'Elite Squad 2' plays footsie with both socialism and fascism, it's never easy to peg." (Read the full review...)
255 words, 11/09/11

Alison Willmore, AV Club: VERY GOOD (cg)
"...offers an exhilaratingly bleak vision of what it describes as 'an articulation of loathsome interests,' in which the well-meaning suffer..." (Read the full review...)
410 words, 11/10/11

Diego Costa, Slant: OUTSTANDING (cg)
"An impeccable exposition of the structures of Brazilian power in which the gun is the necessary phallic prosthesis that guarantees existential visibility for the socially castrated classes and the 'democratic' vote is the ultimate market commodity (sold to the highest bidder)... pure pedagogic bliss." (Read the full review...)
677 words, 11/05/11

Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: GOOD (NOT GREAT) (cg)
"...a gruesome and entertaining action movie that earnestly tries for more." (Read the full review...)
226 words, 11/24/11
HIGHBROW PRESS (2 Reviews)
Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD
"...seems like a conscious effort to rebut accusations that its forerunner ['Elite Squad'] was fascistic in its iron-fisted law-and-order view of how to deal with Rio de Janeiro's drug-infested favelas." (Read the full review...)
566 words, 11/11/11

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: FAIR
"Complexity isn't this movie's buzzword... it resembles a flow chart splattered with blood and spittle, more static and smeary in tone than the finger-pointing corrective director-cowriter Jose Padilha intended." (Read the full review...)
233 words, 11/18/11
MOVIE INDUSTRY (4 Reviews)
Robert Koehler, Daily Variety: GOOD (NOT GREAT)
"Pic tries to inoculate itself against charges of championing right-wing, law-and-order sympathies (levied against [Brazilian film 'Elite Squad']) by having hero Nascimento go after dirty cops and government officials rather than drug dealers." (Read the full review...)
689 words, 01/31/11

Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter: GOOD
"A fast-paced, hard-hitting Brazilian police thriller.... purely entertaining..." (Read the full review...)
610 words, 01/30/11

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: FAIR
"Complexity isn't this movie's buzzword... it resembles a flow chart splattered with blood and spittle, more static and smeary in tone than the finger-pointing corrective director-cowriter Jose Padilha intended." (Read the full review...)
233 words, 11/18/11

Stephen Holden, New York Times: GOOD
"...seems like a conscious effort to rebut accusations that its forerunner ['Elite Squad'] was fascistic in its iron-fisted law-and-order view of how to deal with Rio de Janeiro's drug-infested favelas." (Read the full review...)
566 words, 11/11/11
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Review Mixture
15.6 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews
(Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de elite: O inimigo agora e outro)'s reviews are separated by an average 15.6 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.

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Coverage, Volume & Length

Coverage: Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de elite: O inimigo agora e outro)'s reviews cover 23.8% of potential readers (average is 68.2%). Volume: The film's reviews total 7,468 words in volume (average is 19,979 words). Length: The film's reviews average 415 words in length (the norm is 512 words).

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de elite: O inimigo agora e outro)
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Opening Day Reviews
Reviews Broke 6 Days Before Release (Norm is 0.2 Release)

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de elite: O inimigo agora e outro)'s reviews on average broke 6 days before opening. Norm for this measure is 0.2 hours after. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de elite: O inimigo agora e outro)'s opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.

Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (Tropa de elite: O inimigo agora e outro)
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