ThiefHott Too much of everything

SpuffyWeb Sadly Over-hyped

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Ceticultsot Beautiful, moving film.

Armand and almost, correct. portrait of a character, it becomes a poem. an eulogy with flavor of Hollywood war films. it is not a sin because each director makes his choices. and, in this case, the not inspired political ideas are important but the art to create a film who present not only images but has desire to give a testimony. so, a problem of courage. and extraordinary occasion for Benicio Del Toro to do a magnificent role. OK, in many parts it is a sentimental lesson. but the measure is not broken. the realism of fight for conquest of power, the good acting and the force of images are real virtues. it is not exactly propaganda but it has not a profound vision about root of events. but it is impressive and that is relevant.

NICO Che: Part One is a phenomenal movie about the revolutionary beginnings of the Argentine Ernesto Guevara in the island of Cuba. Steven Soderbergh does a fabulous job of directing this film in such a distinct and entertaining way, intertwining politics, war, and personal experiences. The movie goes from black and white scenes of Che being interviewed and attending United Nations meetings in the United States, to color scenes of Che with his revolutionary army in the jungles of Cuba, where they were fighting. The way these scenes are knitted together is truly remarkable and worthy of acknowledgement. Moreover, the movie is rich in its historical value as well as being easy to engage with through its telling of the personal story and experience of the main character, Ernesto Guevara. It is extremely hard to finish the movie without appreciating the character of Che and all the good qualities he displays throughout. Although I went into the movie with a preexisting position about the revolutionary, the film certainly caused me to be fond of him more and not judge him as I used to.

geoffreybaker Listen: I LIKE ERNESTO GUEVARA. I LIKE ALL THE ACTORS. I LIKE SODEBERBERG.So why was this movie so absolutely, completely awful? Ever seen a movie over four hours long where at the end you feel like you know NOTHING about the hero? Ever seen a movie that plods along so slowly that you're begging for it to end... and yet despite all the time and detail, so much is still so inexplicable? If you are a fan or Che or revolutionary politics, go see The Motorcycle Diaries; Che comes across as young, brash, vibrant, idealistic, fun... you feel you know him.This movie, I'm afraid, is essentially retelling, page by awful page, the complete diary of Ernesto Guevara over a period of many years, without bothering to edit, explain, highlight or detail any one page over another. The tedious Marxist verbiage is repeated line for line as Che explains to one comrade or another the essence of the armed struggle; the long, slow daily boring grind of what its like to hide out in the jungle for months at a time is lovingly recreated...This movie needed an EDITOR!!!! Some SNAPPY DIALOGUE!!!! A DECENT SCORE!!! I apologize to all the Che fans out there who probably feel this endless tripe was a loving recreation of his life... but it wasn't... it was merely as exciting as if Steven Soderberg stood in your living room for five hours and READ you Che's diary, in a flat, even monotone.That's how boring it was. Using the same technique, you could turn the greatest stories ever told into unwatchable muck. The truth is that diaries are not good stories, by themselves. You have to figure out which are the exciting parts and which aren't. You have to punch up the dialog a bit beyond the "Then I told my comrade that the revolutionary struggle begins with the armed struggle, that the people cannot support us without understanding the nature of the Marxist dialectic through the viewpoint of a semi-feudal dictatorship...blah blah..." Listen, I KNOW Che was a lot more interesting that that. But sadly Soderberg doesn't bring him out... he hides him.You watch helplessly as Che and his revolutionary brothers in the second movie slowly starve to death as they hide in the jungle, forgetting, apparently, that to have an armed struggle you have to occasionally meet up with other people to struggle with. In retrospect, Che's entire Bolivian foray was probably the worst revolutionary decision ever made, and virtually suicidal; to enter a foreign country, hide in the vast jungle and then expect that somehow you will get the people in the cities, in industry, and on the farms to all join you and your foreign revolutionary brethren from Cuba and Panama and France and England ... but enough on Che's mistakes; let's get back to Soderbergs.The music was simply awful. Long irritating passages of near random noise just got in the way of what little development and action that might be occurring on screen.The dialog was similarly inept. Although better in the first movie, by the time the second rolls around, what little dialog there is is exceptionally wooden.Lastly, about two and a half hours of this movie should never have made it off the cutting room floor. We just didn't need to see the endless trekking through the jungle. The unbelievably slow buildups to most actual action could have been cut in half.Why did Matt Damon show up as a local village elder for a scene lasting under sixty seconds? That annoyed me.I would love to see a good movie about Che that really brings out the man behind the myth. How can you possibly, as Che II does, never mention except once that Che had a wife and five children? Because I really would like to a great movie about Che, and The Motorcycle Diaries would make a good start. I'd pay to see The Motorcycle Diaries Part II and Part III.But Soderberg's Che? Sadly, he comes across as nothing more than the icon we already know... a black and white image, easily silk-screened onto T-shirts.You learn nothing else. In five hours.

barrywilliams993 This is another fatuous fantasy about a Marxist and, worse, a racist that absolutely hated black people.This is indicative of the infatuation of Hollywood elitists who seem not to realize that Che was no hero. He helped install one of the world's most notorious dictators in Cuba and the country has suffered ever sense.I see this as another attempt to portray Che as some sort of liberator and hero. He was neither. He did what he did for his purposes and for La Raza. The unfortunate thing is that no one was freed and there is nothing heroic about Che's pathetic and hate-filled life.Don't bother to slog through this over glorification of the "freedom" fighter who had contempt for those he "freed".