Greenes
Please don't spend money on this.
ReaderKenka
Let's be realistic.
Marva-nova
Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.
Tcarts76
"Che Part II" follows Che Guevara as he sneaks himself into Bolivia and gets together a gorilla force to fight for all that is Marxist in South America.It suffers from the same drab, boring writing, scene selection, and overall boringness of part I. Let's face it folks, Benicio Del Toro only won an award from this 2 movie snoozefest because Europeans now worship at the alter of anything leftist. The biggest problem with this 2 part movie is that it leaves out the story between the Cuban Revolution, and his reappearance in Bolivia. The time period that is well known to Cuban refugees, and always left out by marxist supporters. That is the part of history where Che gets a reputation as being quite the Inhumane humanitarian. Its the time when he rules over a prison where people are stripped of all human rights and killed. The also neglected to write in the part of history where Fidel agrees to release political prisoners, but because he and Che had already did what communist nations do, they call it a "purge" but most people call it murder, he just send all his criminals to Miami.They do again get one thing right in part 2 as they did in part 1. They portrayed Che as he was, a poor military leader. I also think though that they may have really ignored a real reason for leaving Cuba. That is called EGO. Che had a big ego. This may explain why Che just disappears and later Castro reads his letter. After his speech at the U.N. Fidel Castro might have felt that Che may get more famous and popular than him, that would explain why there wasn't a ton of Cuban help for his endeavor. Che was a devout marxist and believed in the cause. I can't argue that, but he may have been looking to become a bigger figure than Castro, and wanted to lead a "Domino effect" army of communist revolutions with himself as leader and dictator. It may just be possible.Again, both movies together make for a most boring 4 hours of bad dialog (in Spanish), dull scenes, little to no action, and a real sense of ,"Why did I waste my time watching this crap?" and " Why would anyone waste this much film and never really entertain the viewer at all?" "Che part II is just the last 2 hours of 4 that you will never get back.
Boba_Fett1138
Just as was the case with the first movie, this is a well made one but it's also a far from involving or interesting one. Seriously, if you want to learn about Che Guevara you are better off simply reading a book or watch a documentary about him because this movie will learn you very little.It's quite annoying how this movie doesn't really bother to explain anything or go deeper into detail with certain things. Even the character of Che remains a kind of flat one and you just don't know what is going on in his head or what his exact motivations and true beliefs were. He is mostly being a very unpredictable character that you just can't ever really care about.To add to the confusion of it all, even more characters get introduced this time. There are dozens and dozens of speaking roles in this movie and each of those characters have a name as well. Why should we care about any of them when we can't even tell who is who anymore after a while. There are simply too many characters and the movie should had focused more on just an handful of them. It would had made the movie far more involving to watch and easier to follow.Even though you can't really hate this movie, it's also not really a movie that is very pleasant to watch due to its overall approach. It's a hard movie to get through and you really have to sit down to watch it, without any distractions. Yet, strange as it might sound, I liked this movie a tad bit better than the first one. The overall flow was more pleasant and more was happening in this movie, although it still remains a sort of slow- and at times dragging one. The movie didn't seemed as messy and random with some of its sequences this time, almost as if they had more time to put this movie together in the editing room than was the case with the first part.With the first movie it still seemed quite pointless that they spend so many millions of dollars on it. I mean, the movie is about just a bunch of guys going to the jungle. With this movie the money seems better spend. It has more different settings in it and also far more action. But don't think that this means this movie is an action movie please.It remains a really well made film but don't watch this expecting to be grabbed- or learn anything from it. A good movie but without a real heart or message.7/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/
BigLaxFan94
I've read up a little bit on Che before watching this film and you wanna know something, he was a real hero for the people because he only wanted to see equality for everyone and that he hated what the oppressive forces were doing to his people as well as all other Latin Americans in general! Now, I don't know about others, but to me he did the right thing by wanting socialism so that everyone had to pay their fair share. However, the powerful elite obviously weren't going to go for that. So, rather than understanding what Che Guevera wanted, they were forced to kill him in attempting to suppress the revolution. It didn't work since there were too many of his other followers who only picked up where he left off. A good example of this was when Castro continued his leadership in Cuba. As far as I'm concerned and as Che said it himself right before he died: "If you kill me, that's fine. But you're only killing a man, you'll NEVER kill the cause!" I couldn't have said it any better myself.But ... ANYWAYS.... that's why I give this film a 7 out of 10.
david-greene5
Having just completed a viewing of both parts one and two of this lengthy film (and I really like lengthy films if they are good), I feel that a great many of the artists involved in its making, both cast and crew, did a lot of admirable work. Somehow, the whole thing held my interest fairly well; however, the big problem with the film lies with the long shot. The director chose to keep his camera at a considerable distance from his subjects, eschewing the occasional close-up altogether too often for my taste. This stylistic choice is symbolic of the biggest flaw in the film. We see the great ordeal that Guevara underwent for his beliefs, and the nobility of his unflagging commitment to his crusade clearly presented here. The problem lies with the emptiness of sitting through so much footage without ever being allowed enough "closeness" to the principal characters to get a feeling of connection with them. From what I have read, Che was a very complex, intelligent fellow. I would have liked to get to know him a little bit, but this film seemed to be so much about his deeds, and so little about what distinguished him as a person that I am surprised when some of the comments on this site suggest that their authors felt that some depth of character was conveyed. In the end, I feel as though I just saw endless hours of newsreel footage. It was a very chilly, impersonal experience. Noting that as gifted and capable an artist as Benicio Del Toro was not only the star, but the producer, I have to commend him for resisting all temptation to give his portrayal any of the kind of stylistic flourish that distinguishes star performers. Unfortunately, this contributed to the distance at which the whole movie keeps us from a feeling of personal involvement with the protagonist. If Soderberg's sole purpose was to convey a sense of the magnitude of Guevara's struggle and sacrifice, he succeeds in this. Sadly, I feel the whole vast production could have offered us a much richer human experience. As hard and inflexible as a revolutionary's commitment to his particular ideology, this movie builds up a brick wall which consistently denies us any intimacy with its subject.
