Tagged: jose padilha

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Robocop (2014)

Well, this went better than expected. In fact, it is a pretty decent PG-13 remake of an R-rated movie!

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Robocop Trailer

Here’s the first trailer of Robocop, and the “suit” doesn’t look as bad as I feared. Yay!

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Elite Squad (2007)

There hasn’t been a recent take on contemporary society that doesn’t rely on metaphoric imagery in recent memory. Tropa de Elite and Tropa de Elite 2 have done so in an accessible way for regular movie-watching audiences.

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Elite Squad 2

Colonel Nascimiento, head of the Special Police Operation Battalion, gets “demoted” to become Secretary of Security in the Intelligence Agency after accusations of human right violations, and the government sets out to clean up the favelas from drugs.