00:00Hi, I'm Rafi Margolis, and this is Trailers from Hell.
00:03Today we're going to talk about Elite Squad 2, Enemy Within.
00:05Now, this is one of the first movies that I saw when I moved to Los Angeles.
00:10Formerly the landmark Sunset 5, and then it was the AMC Sunset 5,
00:16and now his Reclaim the Throne is the landmark Sunset 5,
00:19which I'm sure you're all curious about.
00:21And I absolutely was floored by this movie.
00:23I had not seen Elite Squad 1, Enemy Without,
00:26but I came into this movie cold, and I left on fire.
00:31This is just such a special movie, and I'm so excited to talk about it.
00:34And with that, we'll play the trailer.
00:37This is a movie that, first of all, was the biggest Brazilian movie ever when it came out.
00:42It is the type of film that you've seen a thousand times before,
00:44and in the midst of watching it, you forget all of that,
00:46because it is so well-crafted.
00:48It is essentially a procedural about an Elite Squad working to take down crime lords in Rio,
00:56and it's just a gut punch.
00:59Like, the Wagner Mora role is, or Wagner Mora, is so fantastic in this movie.
01:04It walks this line like the greatest of these films do.
01:08It's kind of evocative of Dirty Harry, but it's so much more morally ambiguous.
01:12You really don't know whose side is morally right.
01:18You just know that kind of everyone is wrong,
01:20and there are gradations of violence, and there are gradations of, you know, deplorable behavior.
01:26And it really reminds me a lot of the Don Winslow,
01:29at least the first book in his trilogy, Power of the Dog,
01:33which is just a fantastic piece of fiction that may never get adapted,
01:37so this is the closest thing we have.
01:39And it's about, you know, what happens when you have to fight monsters
01:42and how you have to become a monster.
01:44And the drama is wonderful.
01:46The procedural elements are so captivating.
01:48The action is kind of jaw-dropping.
01:51It really, you know, feels urgent and unique,
01:55despite the fact that it's, you know, again, the oldest story in the book,
01:59the story of, you know, what you have to do to fight crime.
02:02And, you know, it also reminds me a bit of Prince of the City,
02:05just in terms of the sprawl of it.
02:06You know, this movie feels so robust.
02:09And, you know, Jose Padilla, who directed this, went on to do Narcos,
02:13which obviously, you know, there are similarities to be drawn,
02:15but this is, I think, his finest work,
02:16and I cannot recommend it enough for people who want a fantastic piece of crime fiction.
02:22And it's already out. It's not even coming soon.
02:24You can watch it right now.
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