I’ve been thinking about this movie nonstop since I saw it and I am ready to declare it some kind of masterpiece. It is unlike anything you’ve seen before – and that is to its credit and its detriment. It absolutely shuns all the preconceived notions of what an epic should be and what a biopic should be. It is a film of paradoxes. It is microscopic, in that it is solely about two guerilla operations in Che Guevra’s life with virtually no side stories, but it is also maximalist. This sucker is four-and-a-half hours long, so get ready to spend a LOT of time with bearded men getting shot in the mud.
Anything I can say about Che has already been said far more articulately by Jurgen Fauth in his review.
