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Comandante (2003)

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Reviews Counted: 12 Fresh: 7  Rotten:5 Average Rating: 5.5/10

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Synopsis: A documentary about Oliver Stone's meeting with Fidel Castro. A documentary about Oliver Stone's meeting with Fidel Castro. [More]

Genre: Education/General Interest

Director: Oliver Stone

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An opportunity frustratingly squandered, but one which still makes for fascinating viewing thanks to Castro's natural charisma. Errol Morris would have nailed it.

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12/30/06
Alan Morrison
Empire Magazine
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The pair make a smug double act, but you can't fault them for charisma.

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06/24/06
Time Out
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2/5

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01/27/04
Johann Hari
Independent
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3/5

Fidel is up to everything Stone lobs gently at him, and even replies to the film-maker's rather crass philosophising, of which there is far too much.

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01/15/04
Derek Malcolm
Guardian [UK]
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3/5

Ultimately, Comandante feels like little more than a backslapping love-in.

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09/30/03
Jamie Russell
BBC
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2/5

While it's fascinating to get Castro's perspective ... we can't help but feel that Stone is bending this documentary for his own personal interest.

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07/03/03
Rich Cline
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Stone should be justifiably proud, for he has crafted a compulsive piece of cinema.

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05/24/03
James Mottram
Channel 4 Film
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Even when he seems less than forthright, Castro rarely fails to come across as a genial, charismatic guy. But that might just be the magic of the movies.

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07/13/07
Marc Mohan
Oregonian
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The documentary that, according to HBO, isn't good enough for you to see.

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05/26/04
Oz
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While it's fascinating to get Castro's perspective on things like the Bay of Pigs invasion, the missile crisis, US intervention in Latin America and the Cold War, we can't help but feel that Stone is bending this documentary for his own personal interest.

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08/27/03
Rich Cline
Film Threat
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The result is a candid portrait, if not a multisided one, of a man whom the Western world has perhaps known little about other than his beard, his fatigues, his cigars.

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04/27/03
Annlee Ellingson
Boxoffice Magazine
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In all, we get a better sense of who this guy is, a man who has spent more time on the international stage than any world leader today.

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01/30/03
Kirk Honeycutt
Hollywood Reporter
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