SummaryNovember 26, 1956; led by Fidel Castro , a band of 80 rebels sails to Cuba. Among these young rebels is Argentine physician, Marxist, soldier, Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Nation-less, strapped for resources and fueled only by determination, the group engages in swift, bloody battle to free the Cuban people from the corrupt dictatorship of Fulgencio Ba... Read More
Directed By:Steven Soderbergh
Written By:Peter Buchman, Benjamin A. van der Veen, Ernesto 'Che' Guevara
Che
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64
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
64
63% Positive
15 Reviews
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29% Mixed
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8% Negative
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91
In both halves, Soderbergh emphasizes observation over ideology with an eye toward the mundane details of life on the front lines of a revolution.
83
Leaving aside politics, it's quite an achievement in art.
User score
Generally Favorable
7.2
73% Positive
27 Ratings
27 Ratings
22% Mixed
8 Ratings
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5% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
Jan 6, 2012
7
This is strangely dull for a biopic of such an interesting historical figure. I didn't hate it. The pace could be described as languid, and it goes on for 5 hours (in two parts on DVD; 'The Argentine', 'Guerilla'). Well shot and has the tinge of authenticity. More edifying than entertaining. I'm glad i watched it but i don't need to watch it again
Oct 27, 2015
5
Only the last shots of the second part are truly captivating, even haunting. The rest is oddly detached and muted though, with the screenplay giving a strange version of Che which seems to capture neither his best nor his worst. Although the slow pacing does a decent job in the first part of conveying how a guerrilla campaign might have a slow buildup (although the real Cuban revolution was fantastically successful), and some of the details of the early struggle are interesting, the second part, while appropriately depressing, misfires and simply drags.
75
What this slow-moving but fascinating two-part portrait does do is hunker down in the jungles and mountains of Cuba and (in the second part) Bolivia, capturing in keen, almost Zen-like detail the trudging and trekking, the recruiting and strategizing, the fighting and the philosophizing.
70
If this earnest, two-part biopic with a total running time of 268 minutes sometimes lacks cinematic flair, the straight-ahead, chronologically-driven film will inform and, to a somewhat lesser extent, excite viewers everywhere.
60
If the director has gone out of his way to avoid the usual Hollywood biopic conventions, he has also withheld any suggestion of why the charismatic doctor, fighter, diplomat, diarist and intellectual theorist became and remains such a legendary figure; if anything, Che seems diminished by the way he's portrayed here.
50
What potentially could have been the greatest asset possessed by Che - its unapologetic length - turns into its greatest detriment.
25
If Soderbergh's ambition was to make us feel just how dull it would be to a woods-dwelling communist guerrilla, he succeeded.
Jan 11, 2013
4
More interesting and impressive than enjoyable. Beautiful in parts and horrifying in others. But at times it seems like Soderburgh is more interested in honing his craft than producing a film for audiences.
Production Company:
- Wild Bunch
- Telecinco
- Laura Bickford Productions
- Morena Films
- Ministerio de Cultura
- Guerrilla Films
- Londra Films P&D
- Pucara Films
Release Date:Dec 12, 2008
Duration:2 h 15 m
Awards
Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Online Film Critics Society Awards
• 2 Nominations
New York Film Critics, Online
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
