ReaderKenka Let's be realistic.

LouHomey From my favorite movies..

XoWizIama Excellent adaptation.

SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Bento de Espinosa I'm totally critical of all kinds of ideologies and 100% against personality cult. I have my own opinions and know what is good and bad in both capitalism and communism. One may dislike or even hate Che Guevara, who also executed people, but he'll have to acknowledge that he was very courageous and sincerely motivated to help poor people get a better life. This can't be said about people like Lenin, of course.I found Part Two better than Part One, with more tension, but probably because when you know a story is not going to have a happy ending, then it's even more interesting. The movie as a whole is "only" good, but with del Toro's very convincing performance, it comes close to being excellent.

Elena Iacob Personally, I am fascinated by the personality of Che Guevara that led him to the belief that ideals are achievable. If he didn't fully succeed I think it was because at some point he lost his realism on life. Life on Earth is not really the place where one can reach high ideals. Not because the ideals are not part of the human life, but because forgetfulness is a stronger part of it. Forgetfulness seeps in every act of our lives and thus we come to forget ideals and ideas and bother for instinctual calls, which are hardly ever forgotten because they scream out too loud. Anyway, I should discuss the film about Che, not Che himself. I don't think the film managed to represent a powerful, ambitious, motivating and idealistic Che. I would say that Che from the movie was rather bored and, if he had any purpose in all that he had done, that was nothing but fame. Besides this moral aspect, it is also the physical one. Real Che was incredibly handsome and the chosen actor is not half resembling Che. I'd make a suggestion...Have any of you ever looked comparatively at Colin Farrell and Che? It happened to me at some point...They are very similar in appearance! If any director ever understands the greatness of a GOOD CHE MOVIE, then I am sure Colin Farrell will be his choice. Maybe, maybe...

meeza It surprises me that I actually got the courage to watch the bio flick or flicks "Che: Parts 1 & 2". Why? Because if my Cuban exile parents would ever found out I saw this movie about this despicable mass murderer of the Cuban revolution, I would be grounded for life. Hey wait? I am an adult, they can't ground me no mas. Director Steven Soderbergh, and newbie commie (sorry Steven, but I had to take Soder shots here) divides the movie in two partes on Commander Ernesto "Che" Guevara's revolutionary life. "Che: Part 1" presents how Che in the mid 1950's joined Fidel Castro's guerilla crew in their revolutionary quest to overthrow Cuban President Fulgencio Batista's regime; which as we all know was a revolutionary success for them, but a gargantuan guerilla disaster to many Cubans as it revolted into Communism. "Che: Part 2" presents Che trying to revolutionize the T-Shirt industry by pitching T-Shirts with his appalling bearbado face to T-Shirt manufacturers. OK, I am che-chatting a lot of crap towards your way! I meant to say the 'Che: Part 2" focuses on Che in the late 60's trying to bring back the revolution, this time to a poverty-stricken Bolivia, but with far different results. In fact, Che ended up being dead meat enchelada when he was captured and killed by the Bolivian militia in 1967. Soderbergh does not include the in-between time of those two instances in Che's life when he commanded the despicable La Cabana Fortress Prison in Cuba, where he mass murdered many Cubans who opposed Communism. That is where I think Soderbergh executed a cinematic injustice by not showing the viewers how atrocious Guevara really was. I did decide to see "Che" in hopes that Soderbergh would not glamorize him, but instead present how disturbed he really was. Unfortunately, Soderbergh did not do the latter and sadly decided to present Guevara as a Revolutionary hero, which he was not. He was a sick man who thank God is now probably at the bottom of the devil barrel. Now, I do have to be an objectivistic reviewer and must admit that Benicio Del Toro's performance as Che was extremely commanding, and worthy of merit. And that Demian Bichir was a haunting dead-ringer as Fidel Castro in his meticulous performance. But the rest of the cast of "Che" was primarily comprised of mediocre performances of actors portraying Guerilla soldiers. And as much as I do admire Matt Damon, why did Sodebergh throw him in the revolutionary mix in a Spanish-speaking cameo performance portraying a Bolivian delegate? Soderbergh did not have to present this biopic which is mostly "too much talk and not enough action" in 4 hours and 30 minutes. We have had too much of Che already, even posthumously with those ridiculous t-shirts, so why give us too much more of him? But I guess when you have the Del Toro by the horns (as you did here Steven), I guess it is your saving grace for not totally executing "Che: Parts 1 &2". *** Average

davideo-2 STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning This second instalment of the Che films moves the story forward to the late 60s, where the man has now moved his resistance fighters into the hills of South America, surviving without enough food and water and with tensions mounting between the group. Everything comes to a head when he crosses the border into Bolivia and the government forces step up their campaign to bring him down.Without the flitting between time and places of the last film, Soderbergh's second instalment focuses solely on the action in the hills, and manages to be an even duller experience. And more pretentiously, the score has been drowned out, giving the second instalment more of an unwelcome air of artsieness that proves just as alienating. There's just an unshakeable air of boredom to the film that never lets up. You can't fault Soderbergh's ambition or Del Toro's drive in the lead role, it's just a shame that somewhere in the production things managed to take such a disappointing turn. **