An elite battalion of police officers, known as BOPE, are pretty much the only thing that the drug dealers living in the favelas of Rio De Janerio fear - aside from each other. But the man who commands them wants out; the unrelenting brutality of his job is beginning to fracture both his mind and family life. The Captain has one goal: to find a worthy replacement, untainted by the corruption that riddles his fellow colleagues, and the potential shows itself in the form of two very different but
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ONE FALSE MOVE (1992)
Certification18 Our Rating
A superb modern thriller in the ultra-hardboiled Jim Thompson mould, in which a trio of criminals, wanted for a brutally murderous drugs heist, converge on a small, quiet Arkansas township where the local cop, treated with contempt by the LA officers in charge of the case, looks forward to a High Noon-style showdown. The asides on racial and sexual inequality are made subtly and succinctly; the performances and pacing are nigh perfect; the violence is explicit, disturbing but never gratuitous; a
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THE PROPHECY (1994)
Certification18 Our Rating
The gloriously ghoulish Christopher Walken stars in this satisfyingly sinister supernatural chiller. A novice priest spooked by nightmares, ducks out of his ordination and becomes a cop instead. Years later, it seems the forces of evil and the ghosts of his past have come back to haunt him. Spooky.
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