Che: Part Two

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Anakin M Sep 9, 2017 Based on Ernesto Che Guevara's 'The Bolivian Diary' that chronicles his last days before his death at the guerrilla campaign in Bolivia, Steven Soderbergh's day-to-day account is so tediously fatalistic that the poignancy of the closing scenes of the helicopter airlifting his body and his first journey with Fidel Castro to Cuba frazzles. See more

George M Jun 19, 2017 After the success of the Cuban revolution, Castro tried to spread his brand of communism to mainland South America and key to this aim was his trusted comrade Che Guevara. To this end, Guevara was smuggled secretly into Bolivia in the late 1960s to try to mobilise the disparate bands of guerrillas trying to overthrow the Barrientos regime. Bolivia was a very different place to Cuba with a population that had endured years of repression and had become cowed and downtrodden. With informants and spies everywhere, Guevara and his team of Cuban agitators are harried by the military, funded by a hostile US and find that they are unable to establish a workable base from which to manage the revolution. As the campaign unravels Guevara realises that the mission is not tenable and the whole venture ends in bloody disaster. The Second part of Steven Soderbergh's biopic of Che Guevara starring Benicio del Toro is a perfect bookend to the first movie. It has a very different tone and is suitable more down beat. Benicio's portrayal of the older, more world weary Guevara makes for a more tragic and doom laden figure who seems resigned to his ultimate fate. For me this has been a superb double bill of movies that capture the spirit of a man who casts a very long shadow indeed. Well worth watching whatever your views. See more

Draco P Apr 22, 2017 Although flawed to a degree, "Che: Part Two" is an excellent follow-up thanks to top form performances and directing.

Luke S Feb 12, 2010 This well-made second chapter of Soderbergh's two-part epic, centered now on Che in the Bolivian guerrilla, is more objective than the first one and does a better job portraying the character more as a man than a hero, which helps make it a slight improvement over Part 1. See more

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