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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The acting in this movie is really good.

I may be one of the few reviewers for the film on this board that didn't realize it was a sequel of sorts, although a quick opening screen shot does state "Elite Squad 2". It doesn't matter, there is no loss of continuity once you get a feel for the principal characters and see what direction they're going in. This is both a crime and political thriller that puts a single honest bureaucrat in the middle of a system that includes a thieving military, drug cartel gang-bangers and highly placed politicians all taking their cut from a disadvantaged citizenry. The story demonstrates just how flexible outlaws can be. When the drug trade in a poverty stricken province is eliminated, the dirty cop money dries up along with it, so the enterprising militia police simply turn to extorting people living in the slums for even greater benefit. It's all very depressing and seemingly insurmountable for a single individual to make headway under the conditions presented, though Lt. Colonel Nascimento (Wagner Moura) eventually makes some progress at the expense of personal trauma of his own. If your only experience of action films has been American made movies, this Brazilian picture will inspire you to seek out more foreign films for the professionalism they reveal in screen writing and cinematography. Prepare to be surprised and captivated by this one.

Elite Squad is a movie about mafia and cops, but not just about it, the movie pass the good versus bad, is a sophisticate analysis of Brazilian society. Made with a strong social sense about politics and realistic habits, the history shows how compress is solve the corruption in Brazil. The main point is about two opposite men, Coronel Nascimento and congressman Diogo Fraga, Nascimento is head of elite squad BOPE, a no limit group of cops, and Fraga is human rights teacher. They are opposite in methodology, but achieve the same goal, destroy a systematic corruption of money and power. The movies exposure the corruption of police, NGO, Congress and everyone, the best point the movies shows is about how complex the system of corruption and power is, and how the status quo protect the bad guys from justice. Padilha, the director made a movie to show the obvious, but it is exactly why this is one of the best Brazilian movies about society.

José Padilha's "Elite Squad: The Enemy Within" explores the deep-seated corruption riddling Rio de Janeiro through a visceral, powerful Brazilian drama. Building on the success of 2007's "Elite Squad," Lt. Colonel Nascimento is back to take the fight to the drug cartels as well as the corruption within Rio's law enforcement and political system, exposing the true depths of the city's social problems. Breathless, brutal, and thrilling. It's a gut punch of an action movie with political undertones.Police Lieutenant Colonel Roberto Nascimento (Wagner Moura) has devoted his entire life to taking down Rio de Janeiro's most notorious criminals. He leads a special ops group (NOPE) known for its uncompromising effectiveness, but his efforts haven't received a lot of support from the corrupt authorities. When Nascimento's attempts to defuse a prison riot, it turns into a blood bath, and the media creates a public frenzy. The government is eager to use the incident as an excuse to fire Nascimento, but the level of public support for the Colonel's actions is overwhelmingly positive. As such, Nascimento is promoted to a high-ranking security position. Initially, it seems that this new power will grant him the ability to fight crime even more effectively. Alas, it doesn't take long before he realizes that the corruption runs even deeper than he could have suspected. The system has no center, Nascimento tells us, and it always wins.The corruption of the Brazilian political system serves as a backdrop to the unrestrained violence and tension that permeates throughout the film. The action sequences are swift, violent, and sharply crafted. "The Enemy Within" presents the question -- which is worse: the amoral politicians who run the city, or the violent cartels who oversee the slums? Padilha's film offers no easy answers, but the title is a tip-off as to where at least his sympathies lie.The film, with its slick production and on-point narration by Moura as Nascimento is an edgy, action-drenched thriller dipped in blood and dirty politics. Still, even during its slickest Hollywood-style action sequences, it's hard to ignore the unyielding, socially conscious anger which fuels the movie. While "The Enemy Within" is not as punchy as its trigger-happy predecessor "Elite Squad," is an intriguing slice of drama with the advantage of a much more balanced standpoint. Previous crime dramas such as "City of God" (2002), "Carandiru" (2003) and Padhila's own 2002 debut "Bus 174" have helped make Brazilian cinema an international critically acclaimed medium. Thankfully, "Elite Squad: The Enemy Within" successfully continues with this trajectory.

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