Benicio Del Toro plays the titular revolutionary Che Guevara made popular by t-shirts the world over. Part 1 covers his part in the Cuban revolution, part 2 his revolution in Bolivia.
With the Bolivian campaign being markedly less successful than the Cuban, part 2 makes an interesting counterpoint to part 1, pointing at conditions that allowed the Cuban revolution to succeed where so many others fail.
What the films don't really do is cast much light on Che himself. His motivations are barely hinted at, his politics rarely shown. The result is a film that seems more "Guerilla warfare 101" than real biopic. What there is is interesting and well put together but lacked the substance that would really have engaged me.
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