Segurança Nacional (2010)

Segurança Nacional: Directed by Roberto Carminati. With Thiago Lacerda, Ângela Vieira, Milton Gonçalves, Marcio Rosario. The Brazilian Government leads Latin American countries in the fight against drug cartels. In response drug cartels start a series of attacks against Brazil’s cities and natural resources. Their first target is the Amazon Forest.

“This movie has been critically acclaimed as an ultra-nationalist (or ufanist, in Brazilian terms) low budget Hollywood wannabe.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe truth is, the critics are right.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eBut, this doesnu0026#39;t make it necessarily a completely bad movie. Of course if youu0026#39;re going to see it you shouldnu0026#39;t be expecting a masterpiece, but it is a perfectly enjoyable Sunday afternoon movie.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn the bad side, the storyline is bland and most of the time the dialogs are pretty boring and not very believable, the action scenes looks like the kind of scenes youu0026#39;d see in a soap opera, the waving Brazilian flag is all over the place even when it doesnu0026#39;t fit the story (but yes, the Brazilian government and military were sponsors) and they have an weird obsession with the city of Florianopolis, even though it has absolutely nothing to do with the whole concept of the movie (but yes, the city was obviously one of the sponsors too).u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eOn the good side of it, you can see cool action scenes featuring actual Brazilian Airforce fighters and bombers like the Embraer Super-Tucanos (where else could you see these in action?). The Brazilian army also does a good job with some realistic jungle war action.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe acting is poor. As a Brazilian Iu0026#39;ve seen all the main Brazilian characters in other roles and they are pretty good, but somehow in this movie they seem to be very robotic and they talk like written language or like some lame dubbing of an American movie all the time, using expressions that are never really used in real life. Thiago Lacerda is a great actor, but it just didnu0026#39;t seem like he was really into it. Joaquín Cosio would look convincing in a picture, but his acting falls short just like everyone else.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe picture and editing was OK, but in some of scenes it just didnu0026#39;t work. For example when the politicianu0026#39;s car is raided by the drug dealers you canu0026#39;t really figure out what the hell is going on. It is too dark and the take looks like they were just cut and paste together in a random order. The soundtrack is also OK. In a few moments it feels somewhat out of place, but overall it delivers.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eTo sum up. It is worth watching. Keep your hopes very low like it did when I watched it and you can have an enjoyable session. If you like Brazilian action movies like City of God or Elite Squad youu0026#39;ll be very disappointed, but if you like the standard American third world action movies like Stalloneu0026#39;s u0026quot;The Expendablesu0026quot;, you will probably enjoy this one.”