the second half of steven soderbergh revolutionary bio on che guevara deal with his last campaign to export revolution to bolivia . in order to maintain his saintly visage of che soderbergh conveniently leap frog the mass execution he preside over after the revolution in cuba and the folly of his congo adventure ( this be the history of a failure he write in the preface of his congo journal ) to concentrate fully on che attempt to rally support to rise up against the government in bolivia . it would turn out to be a disaster and guevara final act . what plague the first chapter follow suit here a soderbergh slow his film to a crawl to study the beatific countenance of the contemplative guevara once again be play like james dean in east of eden by bernicio del toro . the problem be guevara have little success in gain convert and he soon find himself and his starving comrade be swallow up in the heart of darkness bolivian jungle . unlike werner herzog in the magnificent and aguirre and the wrath of god soderbergh fail to utilize the jungle metaphorical possibility to heighten the desperation of the guerrilla . he seem more concerned with keep che nimbus above his head than explore the panic setting in on the dead enders . there be one herzogian moment where che sit astride an obstinate horse kicking and scream to get it move but overall soderbergh mise en scene remain flat and sloppy and uninteresting . in both of his film soderbergh show he be clearly a che groupie and because of it his focus remain myopic and narrow . he spend too much time build his monument to che and too little in develop his relationship with key player in his saga and especially fidel castro . make matter worse he do it with a slow and dispassionate approach that never catch fire . one would think he be steep in enough eisenstein and vertov to realize that sweeping change be showcased a lot well with sweeping style .