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(1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 64% Fresh Page   1   "I found this four-hours-plus movie sheer torture to watch during most of its long running time. 'Che' seems more like a guerilla handbook than a film."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker "Formally, it demonstrates the power of the aspect ratio in deciding our relationship to the story. Dramatically, the film is at once fascinating and completely annoying"   Beyond Hollywood   Brian Holcomb B+ "Even for Soderbergh's itchy experimental trigger finger, Che is an awesome accomplishment of atypical filmmaking scope."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf "...an uncomfortable mix of war procedural and unabashed hero worship; ingenious but flawed."   PopMatters   Chris Barsanti 4/5 "Guevara is too fascinating an individual to be confined to a story that can fit on a bumper sticker."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 2.5/4 "...undoubtedly possesses the feel of an overlong and distinctly self-indulgent piece of work..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair C+ "It never gets over being as dry as a Communist manifesto."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz "'Che' fails to image a being of flesh who elicits empathy."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Donald J. Levit 2.5/4 "Too emotionally dry to embrace but too ingenious to dismiss, Che is a fascinating, problematic film."   Slant Magazine   Fernando F. Croce C "Its piecemeal character, lack of shading and lugubrious pace leave it not just incomplete but, despite the length, surprisingly shallow."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A lengthy and complex portrait of Che as a revolutionary, a leader of a guerilla band, a doctor, a believer in obedience and loyalty, and a man willing to suffer for his beliefs."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat "Bad biographical dramas try to tell you everything about a person's life; good biographical dramas leave you inspired to find out the things not on-screen. Che is, by that yardstick, a very good biographical drama."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 5/10 "Che Guevara, it seems, shall ever be a symbol, and Che doesn't even seem interested in cracking that, thus leaving us no more enlightened than when we stepped in."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 3/4 "A demanding work of cinematic structuralism that eschews most of the conventions of both the war film and the biopic."   MovieMartyr.com   Jeremy Heilman "There is precious little in these movies to fill out our understanding of what it was that made Che a rebel, a leader of men, and the repository of the romantic dreams of several generations of armchair revolutionaries"   Film.com   Jonathan F. Richards "As if watching a gaggle of mountaineers indifferently scale K2."   UGO   Keith Uhlich 3/5 "The emphasis on the brotherhood of the ragtag rebels wouldn't be out of place in a 1940s war film"   Film-Forward.com   Kent Turner 6/10 "Benicio del Toro looks the part, but Soderbergh does little to flesh out his other characters. Just following what is happening is hard work."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "[E]xists as a matter of Guevara's perspective. Soderbergh and Del Toro -- this truly is a tour de force performance -- puts us so totally into his head that it's impossible not to sympathize with him."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/4 "Something is amiss when I come away with more to chew on about what guided the filmmaker's technique than what drove the title subject."   TheMovieReport.com   Michael Dequina C+ "A strikingly constructed, handsomely HD-filmed museum display piece."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 2.5/5 "Movie Che is a towering idealist who just keeps on coming, but he lacks any sense of character. He is heartless, all computer chips and wires inside. He's the Revolutionator."   Filmcritic.com   Paul Brenner 4/5 "This is a film that, much like its subject, is a flawed and fascinating work whose ultimate power is derived less from the ideas of the man at its center than by his intense charisma, supplied here by an amazing central performance from Benicio del Toro."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 4/5 "The film is a series of skirmishes, betrayals, confrontations and dislocations that Soderbergh directs with a matter-of-fact understatement and real cinematographic artistry. Even major action scenes feel eerily authentic, never like a big movie."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B "Che offers a long look at a man who gave up comfort and power in Cuba for a lot of suffering in the wilds of Bolivia."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B+ "... two films and a unified work with each half mirroring, complementing and informing the other."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 9/10 "Less the story of a man than the story of the actions he performs... It's hard to imagine a fuller version of what creating the Cuban Revolution must have looked like."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton 3.5/4 "the curative to the Hollywood biopic formula"   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw  (1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 64% Fresh Page   1