Il codice del crimine

Shooting a movie in Brazil in troubled neighborhoods is not an easy task, and the production did it big time. In certain sections and the street shots, it looks like a docu-film. The careful and invested production, including the chases, do not fall for any American film. The acting of all the actors is natural and reliable. The plot is fascinating, and I had a hard time understanding in which criticism here there are points of boredom? I watched all 8 episodes on binge and couldn't stop watching. Definitely a good Netflix police action series, and the low overall score as well as for excellent French/ European movies or series is due to ignorance and prejudice.

This will be my first time ever to write a review on here (probably 3rd i am writing since subscribing in 2018) just because of this series and I have not even finished it (on episode 6 now) but I got to say I would have missed on an absolute gem had I ignored it when I saw it popping on Netflix just because it's foreign. This is one of the best series I have EVER seen. Wow!

Very well crafted. Good actors and actresses. Didn't know Brazilians can act this well. Believe me guys, this is a beautiful gem.

Highly recommended. Very well crafted. Good actors and actresses. Didn't know Brazilians can act this well. Believe me guys, this is a beautiful gem.

Highly recommended.

I really liked the show. My family works in the Federal Police in Brazil, and from what I've seen, 99% of the work involves paperwork and dealing with verbal abuse from a "delegado".

But, of course, the show is fiction, and it's done well. I had a blast watching it, especially because it didn't have the same old actors you see in every Brazilian show (the lame Globo Actors). The show has everything you want from a crime show. Worth watching!

My only problem was with the dialogue. Some lines and curse words felt too fake, like something out of a comedy sketch from Hermes & Renato. This is a common issue in Brazilian movies and series; the dialogue doesn't feel real enough, which is important for a show like this.

If not, I mean, if there is not a second season - which I am not sure of - so then this series is totally smashed by a cheesy ending, an ending destined to sissies, squeamish under and over fifties housewives...Why such an ending, UNLESS of course if a second season is already "in the pipes" as we say in France, in preparation, or even writing. For the rest, this plot is absolutely my stuff, high scale, XXL armed robbers - not grocery nor gas stations robbers - heavily armed, acting like special forces commandos, and in front of them hard boiled cops whose technicalities in terms of investigation are very well explained, with details galore.... And as you can guess, HEAT is also obviously a material which this series is inspired from, besides also actual events.

First of all, for foreigners, know that the actions in the series are actually quite common in the lives of Brazilians. Our country is huge and crime prevails. A few years ago this new modality emerged in which on a "random" day criminals, drug dealers, corrupt police officers and heavily armed mercenaries invade a city and completely dominate it. There is no chance of resistance, civilians are tied to vehicles, police officers are executed, the entire city is closed. I say this because, looking from the outside, it may seem like a fantasy, but the reality is much worse than what is shown in the series.