Che Part Two
2008
**½
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Cast: Benicio Del Toro, Franka Potente, Joaquim de Almeida, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rodrigo Santoro
By the mid-1960s, Che Guevara has left Cuba and vanished from the face of the earth. In 1966, he resurfaces in Bolivia to lead a disastrous coup which ends up costing his life. Revolution should be passionate business but, like in Che Part One, Soderbergh keeps the hero and his fellow revolutionaries at arm's length at all times. They sit and discuss, train, starve, fight, and become increasingly disillusioned or get killed, but I never get to know any of them well enough to care. By the end I can't even tell the hirsute guerrillas apart. However, it must be said that Benicio Del Toro's performance across the two films is very strong.
