Che: Part Two (2008)
2/10
Boring dramadoc that goes nowhere
26 November 2011
Warning: Spoilers
Just like part One, a dramatised documentary of such sanitised material that it quickly becomes, and remains, an exceedingly boring watch. No matter del Toro's acting, the script is devoid of any real insight into Che - no, Mr Soderbergh, it is not enough just to have made the film, it has to take on the issues regarding this iconic figure, and you don't!!! The film just watches a bunch of guerillas hopelessly meandering around Bolivia without a strategy or even a workable plan to overturn the regime - just like the first part, so why did one succeed and not the other? A couple of passing answers are hinted at, but nothing to stir or engage the viewer. And what was the point of not showing Che's end, with all the curious onlookers at his naked dead body? Answers please on a postcard! It was only the fact that the US had executed Bin Laden in similar vein and dumped the body that there was any resonance to the tame ending.
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