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Elite Squad
MEANRANK
75/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1513
- IMDb #344
- Rotten Tomatoes #2447
- Metacritic #3122
- Letterboxd #490
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #3677
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #929
- Metacritic Audience #130
- Criticker #507
- Douban #574
- Kinopoisk #1372
- AlloCiné #1611
- Trakt #91
Every rating
Split
Lowest is Metacritic critics on 33, highest is Google on 98. Critics average 43, everyone else 81.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In the violent favelas of Rio de Janeiro, the captain of an elite police unit is preparing for his retirement and must choose a successor. He recounts his experiences with the corrupt and brutal war on drugs, detailing the moral compromises and extreme violence required to maintain a fragile order.
Details
- Director
- José Padilha
- Writers
- Bráulio Mantovani, José Padilha, Rodrigo Pimentel
- Based on
- Elite da Tropa by Luiz Eduardo Soares
- Released
- 5 October 2007
- Country
- Brazil
- Language
- Portuguese
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $4.0M
- Box office
- $14.8M
- Awards
- 1 win, 0 nominations
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Awards & nominations
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| Golden Bear 2008 | Golden Bear | Winner |
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