- Release Date: 2009
- Runtime: 126 min
- Genre: Drama
- Starring: Julia Ormond, Benicio Del Toro, Pablo Guevara, Franklin Díaz ... see all
- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- Plot: The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore from Mexico in 1956. Within two years, they mobilized popular support... Read more
User Reviews
Is like a movie showing just the good of Hitler...
Feb 24, 2009
gustavolozada - yahoo.com
Feb 24, 2009gustavolozada - yahoo.com
If you read about El Che, you will notice that almost 90% of his life was bad for the cubans (and other latin countries). He confessed several times that he killed a lot of people (mostly innocent people that believe different),... Full review
Che
Feb 04, 2009
Benny S - yahoo.com
Feb 04, 2009Benny S - yahoo.com
I saw the movie good filming BUT Steve Soderbergh cut BIG Chunk in the middle of the movie when Che order all the killing of Cubanos between wining and Bolivia... Full review
Che
Feb 04, 2009
bennybms - yahoo.com
Feb 04, 2009bennybms - yahoo.com
I saw the movie good filming BUT Steve Soderbergh cut BIG Chunk in the middle of the movie when Che order all the killing of Cubanos between wining and Bolivia... Full review
Deport the CHE admirers
Jan 27, 2009
jerry s - yahoo.com
Jan 27, 2009jerry s - yahoo.com
Hopefully the INS will document the illegal aliens who love this disgusting character. What next? A movie depicting Hitler or Stalin as fun loving family men who were heroic champions for their causes? Che was a vicious animal with no morals.... Full review
Why does hollywood love Communist's?? really? Why?
Jan 27, 2009
whimsygal88 - yahoo.com
Jan 27, 2009whimsygal88 - yahoo.com
I don't get it. why does Hollywood; full of rich people that are free to express themselves love communists so much? Ok, I understand things were bad before the revoulution, but, really things are pretty crappy after it too. The communists... Full review
I cant believe you people
Jan 05, 2009
riflmn11 - yahoo.com
Jan 05, 2009riflmn11 - yahoo.com
... Only in America can a leftist murderer be portrayed as a hero. Its ok, have your freedoms ripped away from you for the "REVELUTION" and see how much of a hero this scum bag is. Because of him my country... Full review
Emotional
Jan 05, 2009
dargentle - yahoo.com
Jan 05, 2009dargentle - yahoo.com
I Grew up knowing about Che in my Country and I am very happy to Know that the young people walking around here can finally know who he really was. the movie wonderful and touch on the other side of Che... Full review
Only in america
Jan 03, 2009
jim_2170 - yahoo.com
Jan 03, 2009jim_2170 - yahoo.com
What a crock of *****. I've read and heard eyewitness accounts of the murderer know as "che". I believe in free speech so go see this movie if you like but know that it is all a lie. If you believe... Full review
Believe what you want.
Dec 23, 2008
super_mofongo - yahoo.com
Dec 23, 2008super_mofongo - yahoo.com
Communist and capitalism, same thing with different faces and names, they both kill for an Ideal, they both consider them selves heroes, no one will admit they are WRONG!!!... Full review
Super Cuban revolution biopic
Oct 26, 2008
Framescourer - imdb.com
Oct 26, 2008Framescourer - imdb.com
In the first of the two Che films (this London Film Festival screening I attended showed both The Argentine and Guerrilla back to back with an intermission) we get all we might expect from a Soderbergh film. Detail without obsessiveness; straightforward... Full review
Critics Reviews
| Mar 13, 2009The Scorecard Review
I felt like there was a lot of material out there and this film could be great.....Don't let the presence of Benicio Del Toro fool you:....That said, I like Steven Soderbergh a lot and I was excited to see a film about Che..... ... Full Review
| Mar 06, 2009The Denver Post
Elegant and insightful, Part One covers the Cuban revolution.....R. Steven Soderbergh moves with confidence between studio romps like his "Ocean's" series and hardier indie fare..... ... Full Review
| Feb 20, 2009MovieWeb
The story of the Bolivian campaign is a tale of tenacity, sacrifice, idealism, and of guerrilla warfare that ultimately fails, bringing Che to his death. ... Full Review
| Feb 20, 2009Jam! Movies
Regardless of how you feel about it politically, that is the film's great accomplishment.
'Che: Part One' is stunning
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| Jan 20, 2009The Metrowest Daily News
With Spanish dialogue, and based on Che's memoir "Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War," Part One works equally well as history and geography lessons (it opens with a map of Cuba, separated into sections), a biography and a thriller.
They decided that the story needed the context of his earlier involvement with Fidel Castro in the successful overthrow of the Cuban dictator Batista to show why Che thought that revolution would also work in Bolivia.
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News
Che, Part One
thestar.com –
2009-07-14
Steven Soderbergh's elephantine account of the rise and deification of revolutionary icon Ernesto (Che) Guevara ran a bladder-bursting 4 hours and 22 minutes in its theatrical version, but it has been split into two for the DVD release. ... Full Article
Benicio del Toro delves into 'Che'
timesunion.com –
2009-04-09
A: Very brief. I was invited to meet him at this book fair. I was brought into a room, and he came in. He was aware of the trips we'd made to Cuba, and he said, "I'm glad you've been... ... Full Article
Tribeca Fest Announces Lineup (Part One)
cinematical.com –
2009-03-10
Che Part Two (15)
birminghammail.net –
2009-02-20
LESS than two months after the premiere of Part One, Benicio Del Toro is back as the guerilla leader Ernesto Che Guevara. This time he's quitting Cuba and heading to Bolivia to repeat his earlier trick of using violence to... ... Full Article
A Rorschach test for revolutionaries
theglobeandmail.com –
2009-02-20
First we got the posters and T-shirts, now there's the 4½-hour movie about the 20th-century's hippest revolutionary, Ernesto (Che) Guevara. At the conclusion of Steven Soderbergh's "road show" double-bill version of the Che films, moviegoers are less likely to be... ... Full Article
'Che' moves forward, on its own terms
nctimes.com –
2009-02-04
Got a few minutes? "Che" is one of those films for people who really enjoy movies that do their thing and tell their story and are unconcerned with your schedule. ... Full Article

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