Adriano_Lessa

This movie achieves the improbable feat of making a concoction of bland and unfunny jokes with scenes that condone pedophilia (a male adult suggests that two 13 and 14 year old boys masturbate him) and bullying (the 'teacher' - played by Gentili himself - bullies his 'apprentices' and pokes fun at them on screen for trying to defend themselves, saying that it is sissy to call bullying 'bullying').

A movie made for kids, "tweens" and teens that goes against all the progresses made by educators and the society as a whole to fight bullying and pedophilia.

A shameful result, it is better to forget this one was made altogether.

This movie does not fulfill one's expectations...It has not nearly the same verve and pulse and artistic assets of "Cidade de Deus". It presumes that the violence in Rio has to be crushed with yet more violence. And the spectator all around Brazil bought this erroneous idea. This is a bad quality copy of a great book, called 'Elite da Tropa'. What the movie "accidentally" forget to mention is the fact that, nowadays, the individual on which Nascimento's character was based on is facing charges in Rio de Janeiro's Corregedoria da Polícia, the institution that deals with policemen that have broken the law. The allegations against him are not little: he have presumably facilitated and/or lend the 'caveirão' (bulletproof terrestrial vehicle, much like an armored cargo van) to drug dealers. The movie would be harmless, given the fact that is a mediocre movie; in terms of cinema, i'd give it a 5. Would be harmless, though. Because it has caused a huge hoopla amongst middle-class viewers in Brazil, that identify themselves with Nascimento, wishing they could, too, kill some 'favela' people.

This movie is full of prejudice and bad, wrongful ideas

One thought, four words: DON'T GO SEE IT. A total waste of money and time.