 When the first version of the film leaked, it caused a major controversy for its portrayal of Captain Nascimento's unpunished police brutality in slums (favelas); some saw it as glamourizing police violence.After its exhibition in Berlin Film Festival, critic Jay Weissberg, in a "Variety" article, called the movie "a one-note celebration of violence-for-good that plays like a recruitment film for fascist thugs".Michel Misse, a researcher of urban violence in the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, in an article by "Carta Capital", tried to explain why some people cheered at Captain Nascimento's actions