The director has approached his subject as the complicated human being he was in life, not the overblown symbol he has become since his death.
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01/26/09
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
I found this four-hours-plus movie sheer torture to watch during most of its long running time. 'Che' seems more like a guerilla handbook than a film.
01/25/09
As absorbing as it is frustrating.
01/23/09
Che, the story of a failed revolutionary, also fails as a film.
01/23/09
... a revelation, an enlightening analysis of a man whose devotion to a political movement defined his life.
01/22/09
It’s hard to know which scene, where the men are tired, hungry and ill-equipped, is more or less important than the others.
01/20/09
I do respect Steven Soderberg for taking on this film and giving us a great part one and for Del Toro’s performance alone.
01/20/09
A complex production mounted, with confidence and a scrupulous eye for detail, by one of our great American filmmakers.
01/16/09
You can smell the gun smoke and taste the cigars.
01/16/09
The film's last chapter is arid yet breathtaking cinema, marked by despairing visuals and a climax that withers, not winds, to a close.
01/16/09
If Soderbergh's ambition was to make us feel just how dull it would be to a woods-dwelling communist guerrilla, he succeeded.
01/16/09
In so many ways, Soderbergh's film does the right things, usually by omission. Why, then, does it feel slightly wrong?
01/16/09
Both a subtle commentary on failed political ideals and an amazingly detailed character piece, Che is like no movie you've seen in a long time. It's one of the best of 2008.
01/16/09
If Soderbergh's goal was to demystify Che Guevera and de-romanticize "revolution," he's succeeded. But unfortunately the result is a film that is just not very compelling.
01/16/09
The factors that energize Part One are notably missing in Part Two...the epic project seems destined to fade quickly, footnoted as another Soderberghian novelty.
01/16/09
Director Steven Soderbergh's two-part, four-hour Che is part folly and part fulfillment, a methodical if coolly romantic portrait of the most familiar 1960s T-shirt icon outside the peace symbol.
01/16/09
The flick is over four hours long and almost feels like you are watching trees grow. What makes it tolerable is Del Toro's dead on performance of an international icon.
01/16/09
It is possible to respect, even enjoy this film and still yearn heartily for it to end. Che is a test of endurance as rewarding as it is fatiguing.
01/16/09
This is a film that, much like its subject, is a flawed and fascinating work whose ultimate power is derived less from the ideas of the man at its center than by his intense charisma, supplied here by an amazing central performance from Benicio del Toro.
01/16/09
... two films and a unified work with each half mirroring, complementing and informing the other.
01/15/09
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January 20, 2009:
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January 04, 2009:
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