O Torturador

Some people said this was a Brazilian spoof of Hollywood action films. Indeed, it is a comedy with many references in that cinema tradition. However, a spoof may have control of its script and make clear that it is a satire. I do not think it is the case. I consider it as a silly and failed attempt to produce a Brazilian badass flick with the sane formula overused in Hollywood, Italy and elsewhere. You have eyepatch, you have really cruel Nazis, you have mafia. The Latin American dictatorship backed by USA and militaries could have been a nice background for a clever comedy, but this is not. An imoral former torturer from Brazilian military dictatorship is not the kind of hero (or anti-hero, whatever) you may expect in a film, particularly in a comedy. His slapstick sidekick played by Octavio Augusto, and the weak dictator Borges played by Ary Fontoura are the best characters, but not enough to save the film. At least there is a nice mocking on military macho ethos, and taking into consideration that it was still military dictatorship in Brazil, it is something to acknowledge.