Review of Elite Squad (2007) by Costafinkel — 25 Mar 2017

Interesting how the critics in total gave this movie a 33 rating (based on 7 reviews) and the users an 86 rating (based on 168 reviews). From the 7 critics reviews, gave it a rating below 30 (out of 100) and the consensus of the bad reviews seems to be because the movie is too violent? or ugly? This is a crime action thriller, you should expect it to be violent.

But different from most nowadays hollywood action thrillers (ahhh, how I mourn the day of movies like Goodfellas), this movie tries to be realistic and does have a very engaging story (although mr. Bennet from the Hollywood Reporter thought it was poorly structured and incoherent.

..... I wonder if he was watching the same movie as me, I found the story to be clear and well told. Then again he gave 100 score to Mamma Mia). This is a fantastic and unique movie, and to me among the best of the last decades.

Forget this critics, from what I can see, they simply are not used to movies that out of the hollywood patterns. Whenever you have the chance, pick up this one and watch it, preferentially with portuguese audio and english subtitles.