Steven Soderbergh is an incredible film maker-I love a lot of this guy's films and have wanted to see this for so long. I walked away from it with that middle of the road feeling.

Benicio Del Toro is pretty amazing in this. I felt he nailed this role from the beginning scene to the end. 7 years of research paid off. I'll be honest I didn't know much about this guy and I was impressed by the interview scenes learning about his philosophies and attitude towards his role in the revolution.

Julia Ormond was alright in this-wasn't crazy about her.

I really liked Demián Bichir as Castro-what interested me most was how these men grew into their roles-how it…

Once upon a time I was an active socialist. I was a card-carrying member of the Scottish Socialist Party when they first started. The more I attended meetings the more I came to realise what a bunch of hypocrites they were. Sheridan in particular was a self-serving vain pompous fool, and the revolution they craved was never going to emerge from their shambolic efforts. I quit in disillusionment, and have never quite recovered that youthful exuberance for politics I had. We're all aware of the face adorning stoner students walls the world over, now nothing more than the most printed image in history. Che has been reduced to an empty symbol of rebellion used to sell t-shirts to those who…

(Reposted from Soderbergh series)

How would most directors follow up something like Ocean’s Thirteen? Since the film was a hit, I imagine they might feel content with rehashing the same thing, because it’s what people want. Not Steven Soderbergh. Like how he followed up Ocean’s Twelve with the odd, unsettling Bubble, his project after Ocean’s Thirteen was another indie experiment, but this one ranks as arguably his most ambitious film. Not many directors would be willing to tackle a four-hour, two-part biopic on Che Guevara. But Soderbergh did. And the result is endlessly fascinating.

Part One

Here, we cover Che’s (played wonderfully by Benicio del Toro, who deservedly won Best Actor at Cannes for the role) rise as a leader…

Review from my VOD column "This Week on Demand".

It’s fitting that Steven Soderbergh’s 2008 revolutionary epic should see Netflix addition the same week as Side by Side; touted largely in that documentary as an exemplar of the artistic capabilities afforded filmmakers by the Red One digital camera, Che is a gorgeous immersion in the bipartite life of its celebrated subject. Part 1: The Argentine explores the well-documented Cuban revolution of the late 1950s in which Guevara and Fidel Castro ousted the island’s military dictatorship; framed by Che’s 1964 address to the United Nations, it’s a fascinating history lesson of a film, gripping as a piece of storytelling if rather less effective as an insight into a famous figure. Given…

Steven Soderbergh is an incredible film maker-I love a lot of this guy's films and have wanted to see this for so long. I walked away from it with that middle of the road feeling.

Benicio Del Toro is pretty amazing in this. I felt he nailed this role from the beginning scene to the end. 7 years of research paid off. I'll be honest I didn't know much about this guy and I was impressed by the interview scenes learning about his philosophies and attitude towards his role in the revolution.

Julia Ormond was alright in this-wasn't crazy about her.

I really liked Demián Bichir as Castro-what interested me most was how these men grew into their roles-how it…