The production values are top notch indeed, as the cinema also explodes with every bang and boom.
Padilha is in control of the film until its very last shot able to summon his own elite squad of cinematographers and sound technicians. The film uses his character to deter the judgmental audience from pretending to know but reminds them they know nothing. The best scenes in the picture not involves scenes of brazen violent explosions but his rationalizing and character driven moments. Practically the film's moral backbone, he elucidates the distinction between pretending to know and knowing. Andre Ramiro's performance as André Matias is pitch perfect. Even if the film's screenplay explodes every second of its almost 2-hour running time, personality development is not left on the back seat, to much relief. Accompanied by a sometimes distracting voice over, the audience is given proper time to find themselves immersed in the narrative and characters. The film being presented in two parts, we are indulged into an extended prologue to get acquainted with the protagonists: Captain Nascimento, feeling the stress as a 0-1, is on the lookout for a substitute between André Matias, a law student cum policeman struggling with his own identity and Neto, the ideal candidate as his replacement who's violent and relentless to a fault. Intense amount of corruption and violence is present here, however brilliantly fleshed out characters lifts the film from being trite after the 1000th gunshot. Film focuses on the brutal, abet necessary foundations of Tropa de Elite, a one hundred strong company of men who swings into action when normal police gets held up themselves. Kinetically filmed, "Tropa de Elite" reaches the dizzying heights of Fernando Meirelles' "Cidade de Deus", as not so much as a photocopy but more as a cinematic twin brother.
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