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Che: Part One
Ernesto 'Che' Guevara transforms from intellectual, asthmatic doctor to one of Latin America's legendary revolutionaries. In 1956, Che and a band of Castro-led Cuban exiles mobilize an army to topple the regime of dictator Fulgencio Batista.
5 December 1977, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
19 April 1981, Bogotá, Colombia
1 August 1963, Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico
18 August 1968, Oriente, Cuba
15 January 1984, New York City, New York, USA
1 August 1973, Salinas, Puerto Rico
October1983, Miami, Florida, USA
24 May 1980, Mayagüez, Puerto Rico
8 December 1980, Monterey, California, USA
22 August 1975, Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
6 March 1958, Ponce, Puerto Rico
January 26, 2011
The director sees Guevara as a pure humanitarian. ... The films are excellent, but understanding this complex historical figure requires more than one source.
January 17, 2010
Che is a ground-level study in perseverance.
February 04, 2010
simultaneously a Hollywood throwback with its lengthy, four-and-a-half-hour roadshow grandiosity and a challenging experiment in genre reformulation
August 16, 2011
The myth somehow deserves better.
June 13, 2010
Soderbergh has no interest in sentimentality, or back story, or even really in Guevara's philosophy, except as a rigorously footnoted onscreen reflection. Practically rejecting outright the concept of poetic license, Che is radical as a biopic.
February 18, 2009
In releasing this reverent, meticulous, fascinating but flaccid history in two lengthy parts, Soderbergh committed perhaps the greatest sin of all. He made Che boring.
March 24, 2011
The quality of the film is more than a testament to Mr Del Toro's acting skills, it is a reminder that Hollywood can make great films without 'selling out'.
October 01, 2009
Soderbergh has made two almost perfect war films, more like the Rings Trilogy than The Green Berets.
January 23, 2009
As absorbing as it is frustrating.
January 23, 2009
Che, the story of a failed revolutionary, also fails as a film.
February 20, 2009
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.
March 06, 2009
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
