Elite Squad vs Outlaw
Elite Squad has the higher audience score (8.1/10 against 6.2/10 for Outlaw). Outlaw is the shorter watch at 1h 20m compared with 1h 55m. Elite Squad is the older of the two (2007 against 2024). Both are action, crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood. Both feature Milhem Cortaz.
Elite Squad
Outlaw| Elite Squad | Outlaw | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 8.1/10 | ★ 6.2/10 |
| Year | 2007 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 55m | 1h 20m |
| Genres | Action, Crime, Drama | Action, Crime, Drama |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | José Padilha | João Wainer |
| Main cast | Wagner Moura, Milhem Cortaz, Caio Junqueira, André Ramiro, Maria Ribeiro | Maria Bomani, Jean Luís Amorim, Milhem Cortaz, João Vitor Nascimento, Jorge Hissa |
Synopsis
Elite Squad
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Outlaw
At the age of nine, Rebeca is sold by her grandmother to the bookseller who ran Rocinha. Disputed by bicheiros and drug dealers, the community is going through changes in power. Rebeca becomes the wife of the chief drug dealer and, with the death of her partner, his successor. The electrifying trajectory of crime, violence, drugs and love of a female drug kingpin in Rocinha, Rio de Janeiro in the 1980s.
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