Che (2008)
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Reviews Counted:93
Fresh:58
Rotten:35
Average Rating:6.2/10
Consensus: Though lengthy and at times plodding, Soderbergh's vision and Benicio Del Toro's understated performance ensure that Che always fascinates.
Theatrical Release:20-02-2009
Synopsis: November 26, 1956; led by Fidel Castro (Demian Bichir), a band of 80 rebels sails to Cuba. Among these young rebels is Argentine physician, Marxist, soldier, Ernesto "Che" Guevara (Benicio Del... [More]
Starring: Benicio Del Toro, Benjamin Bratt, Franka Potente, Lou Diamond Phillips
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Reviews for Che
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 5/5 |
One thing’s for certain: whether it’s a meditation on guerrilla warfare, on Che or on moviemaking itself, you’ve seen nothing like it and are unlikely to ever again. Full Review |
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 6/10 |
The pity is [Soderbergh] was seduced by a sense of historical self-importance and forgot about his audience. Full Review |
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4/5 |
The film is a series of skirmishes, betrayals, confrontations and dislocations that Soderbergh directs with a matter-of-fact understatement and real cinematographic artistry. Even major action scenes feel eerily authentic, never like a big movie. Full Review |
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2/5 |
It's not an elegant piece of filmmaking. Full Review |
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This is very much a film of ideas. Full Review |
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Great showcase for Benicio del Toro, of course, a wonderful actor who gives it his all. But Che, the T shirt hero of three generations, is a myth that so many today THINK Che stood for. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It is interesting. It is ambitious. It is well-assembled, and it is beautifully shot. And it is long -- so long, in fact, that Soderbergh broke his project into two parts. Full Review |
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5/10 |
Del Toro's performance is fine and there are many strong moments (including some wonderful black and white footage of Che in New York) but the parts are better than the whole. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Guevara is too fascinating an individual to be confined to a story that can fit on a bumper sticker. Full Review |
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B+ |
Leaving aside politics, it's quite an achievement in art. Full Review |
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There is precious little in these movies to fill out our understanding of what it was that made Che a rebel, a leader of men, and the repository of the romantic dreams of several generations of armchair revolutionaries Full Review |
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2/4 |
The title and length suggest a biographical epic, but it's neither biographical nor epic. It's as if the director, Steven Soderbergh, wanted to take tissue samples of Ernesto 'Che' Guevara's political life. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Close, but no (Cuban) cigar. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Hugely watchable, practically mesmerizing. Full Review |
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4/4 |
"Che" is a taut thriller, a fascinating character study, a pitiless black comedy, and one of the most singularly interesting biopics ever made. Full Review |
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3/4 |
It's a fight with your bladder and attention span worth waging. Full Review |
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4/5 |
A riveting invocation of history. Full Review |
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1.5/4 |
A potentially great title-role performance by Benicio Del Toro, which won him the best actor award at Cannes, is buried beneath Soderbergh's stylistic tics and a defiant lack of dramatic tension. Full Review |
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B |
Che offers a long look at a man who gave up comfort and power in Cuba for a lot of suffering in the wilds of Bolivia. Full Review |
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[E]xists as a matter of Guevara's perspective. Soderbergh and Del Toro -- this truly is a tour de force performance -- puts us so totally into his head that it's impossible not to sympathize with him. Full Review |
CommentLatest News for Che
January 20, 2009:
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January 04, 2009:
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Benicio Del Toro faced his greatest acting challenge when he took on the role of Ernesto "Che" Guevara for what would become a four-hour epic tale of the iconic revolutionary's... More...
December 09, 2008:
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December 08, 2008:
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