Che: Part Two (Guerrilla) Reviews
Eye for Film
Certainly Soderbergh gives you a sense of the boredom of war - as the days tick by on the screen, you feel your own will to live begin to falter.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Independent
This plodding, one-paced, dramatically inert movie is almost entirely surface description.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Sky Movies
Director Steven Soderbergh's one-dimensional portrait of the revolutionary hero continues unabated in the second part of his over-reverential biopic.
I.E. Weekly
This isn't a biography -- it's a nature show where Guevara is the lion.
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| Original Score: B-
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
The film quickly turns into what can best be described as a lot of wandering around in the Bolivian jungle.
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| Original Score: 3/5
TheMovieReport.com
These are films that are certainly thought out clearly but not nearly felt enough.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Top CriticTwice as long as it needs to be, but it is also only half the movie it should have been.
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| Original Score: C
Charlotte Observer
At this length, that's an unforgivable sin.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Scotsman
Why Bolivia? We don't know, and by the time Guevara picks his way to capture and execution it's hard to care.
What Culture
As a standalone film this is far less enjoyable than the first, but there is enough in here to engage and entertain for the duration.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
DCist
Soderbergh has no interest in sentimentality, or back story, or even really in Guevara's philosophy, except as a rigorously footnoted onscreen reflection. Practically rejecting outright the concept of poetic license, Che is radical as a biopic.
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| Original Score: 8.9/10
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
... a deeply interesting and commercially brave movie, one that recognizes the limits inherent in cinematic biography. It is meant to be experienced, not sounded for meanings, and is weakest when Soderbergh caves into his poetic impulses...
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| Original Score: 87/100
East Bay Express
After the exhilaration of Part One, the mood of Part Two seems somber, almost funereal, but it's integral to the story.
BrianOrndorf.com
Coming directly after the enthralling sweep of The Argentine, it's easy to lose some faith in Soderbergh's ability to obtain a consistent pace to the picture.
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| Original Score: B+
Daily Express
The saving graces are a commanding performance from Del Toro and the inspirational humanity of Guevara; even facing defeat and death he still has an unshakable belief that right will prevail and social justice will flourish.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Empire Magazine
Like Guevara's slog through the Bolivian undergrowth, Che Part Two is a hallucinatory journey into the heart of darkness, defined by a performance of great presence.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Financial Times
This film is stronger than the first. The pale, sepulchral tones give a ritualistic eeriness to the long pursuit scenes.
Daily Telegraph
His film is brilliantly shot, capturing the chilly bareness of the landscapes through which the rebels yomp, but it's formalist and clinical to a degree that will challenge viewers eager to identify with the figures it depicts.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Sunday Times (UK)
The persuasiveness of the film's reconstructions is impressive, but there is hardly ever any tension. It's hard to tell exactly what Soderbergh was hoping to achieve.
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| Original Score: 3/5
