A four-hour, two-part epic that brings out Soderbergh's weakness for stylistic doodling, which sometimes strangles his material.
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01/15/09
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
With Benicio Del Toro delivering a fiercely indrawn and mesmerizing performance in the title role, Che is neither a hagiography nor a superficial character sketch.
01/15/09
A richly detailed but emotionally blank account of Guevara's life.
01/15/09
Benicio Del Toro, one of the film's producers, gives a heroic performance, not least because it's self-effacing.
01/15/09
Top CriticFor all the movie’s narrative momentum, Che retains the air of a study exercise -- of an interest brilliantly explored. How else to explain one’s total flatness of feeling at the climax of each movie?
01/12/09
Tedious, overlong and self-indulgent.
01/09/09
...an uncomfortable mix of war procedural and unabashed hero worship; ingenious but flawed.
01/09/09
the curative to the Hollywood biopic formula
01/08/09
It is worth seeing for its attention to visual detail and ambitious filmmaking, but as a psychological portrait of a compelling historical figure, it is oddly bland and unrevealing.
01/08/09
While Soderbergh and screenwriter Peter Buchman are ill-equipped to explain the Marxist motivations that drove Che Guevara to martyrdom, their film is an honest attempt to come to grips with a revolutionary despised in the mainstream media.
01/08/09
This isn't a biography -- it's a nature show where Guevara is the lion.
01/08/09
Even for Soderbergh's itchy experimental trigger finger, Che is an awesome accomplishment of atypical filmmaking scope.
01/08/09
He's made a film that embraces the romance of revolution only to shake it off, leaving very 
little in its place.
01/07/09
If there was any hint of a devil to Che Guevara, you won't find him in Soderbergh's intricately documented details.
01/05/09
Something is amiss when I come away with more to chew on about what guided the filmmaker's technique than what drove the title subject.
12/27/08
Its piecemeal character, lack of shading and lugubrious pace leave it not just incomplete but, despite the length, surprisingly shallow.
12/23/08
Formally, it demonstrates the power of the aspect ratio in deciding our relationship to the story. Dramatically, the film is at once fascinating and completely annoying
12/22/08
Benicio del Toro looks the part, but Soderbergh does little to flesh out his other characters. Just following what is happening is hard work.
12/19/08
Less the story of a man than the story of the actions he performs... It's hard to imagine a fuller version of what creating the Cuban Revolution must have looked like.
12/15/08
The whole movie is a forced march.
12/15/08
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