now that che ( 2008 ) have finish it relatively short australian cinema run ( extremely limited release represent1 screen in sydney and after 6wks ) and i can guiltlessly join both host of at the movie in take steven soderbergh to task . it usually satisfy to watch a film director change his style or subject and but soderbergh most recent stinker and the girlfriend experience ( 2009 ) and be also miss a story and so narrative ( and edit . ) seem to suddenly be soderbergh main challenge . strange and after 20 odd year in the business . he be probably never much good at narrative and just hide it well inside edgy project . none of this excuse him this present and almost diabolical failure . a david stratton warns and two part of che do not ( even ) make a whole . epic biopic in name only and che ( 2008 ) barely qualify a a feature film . it certainly have no leg and inasmuch a except for it uncharacteristic ultimate resolution force upon it by history and soderbergh 4 . 5hrs long dirge just go nowhere . even margaret pomeranz and the more forgiving of australia at the movie duo and note about soderbergh repetitious waste of ( hd digital storage ) represent youre in the wood . youre in the wood . youre in the wood . i too be surprised soderbergh do not give u another 2 . 5hrs of that somewhere between his exist two part and because he still leave out massive chunk of che revolutionary life . for a biopic of an important but infamous historical figure and soderbergh unaccountably alienate and if not deliberately insult and his audience by1 . never provide most of che story while 2. impose unreasonable film length with mere dullard repetition while 3. ignore both true hindsight and a narrative of event while 4. barely develop an idea and or a character while 5. remain claustrophobically episodic while 6. ignore proper context for scene whatever we do get be mire in disruptive timeshifts while 7. linguistically dislocate all audience ( even spanish speaker will be confuse by the incongruous exposition in english ) while and 8. pointlessly whitewash his main subject into one dimension . why and at this late stage . the t shirt franchise have be a success . our sense of claustrophobia be surely due to peter buchman and benjamin vander veen base their screenplay solely on guevara memoir . so and like a poor student who have read only one of his allotted text for his assignment and soderbergh product be exceedingly limit in perspective . the audience be hold captive within the same constrain knowledge and scenery and circumstance of the revolutionary and but that doesn not elicit our sympathy . instead and it dawn on u that ah and soderbergh try to hobble his audience the same a the latino peasant be at the time . but these be the same illiterate latino peasant who sell out the good doctor to his enemy . why do soderbergh feel the need to equate u with them and and keep u equally mentally captive . such audience straitjacketing must have a purpose . part2 be more chronological than part1 and but it literally mind numb with it repetitive bush bashing and misery of outlook and and lack of variety or character arc . deltoro che have no opportunity to grow a a person while he struggle to educate his own ill discipline troop . the only letup be the humour a che deal with his sometimes deeply ignorant revolutionary and some of whom violently lack self control around local peasant or food . we certainly get no insight into what cause the condition and nor any strategic analysis of their guerrilla insurgency and such a it be . part2 excruciate countdown remain fearfully episodic represent again and nothing be telegraph or contextualized . thus even the scene with fidel castro ( demián bichir ) be unexpected and disconcert . any selected event be portray minimally and latino centrically and with part1 interview replace by time shift meeting between the corrupt bolivian president ( joaquim de almeida ) and u government official promise cia intervention ( . ) . the rest of part2 wood and day for night blue filter just exasperate the audience until theyre eye the exit . perhaps deltoro felt too keenly the frustration of many non american latino about never get a truthful and unspun history of che exploit within their own country . when foreign government still would not deliver a free press to their people for whatever reason then one can see how a popular american indie producer might set out to entice the not so well read ( i may not be able to read or write and but i be not illiterate . cf . the inspector general ( 1949 ) ) out to their own local cinema . the film obvious neglect and gross over simplification hint very strongly that it aim only at the comprehension of the less informed who still speak little english . if they do and they would have read tome on the subject already and and critique the relevant social issue amongst themselves learn the lesson of history a they should . such insight be precisely what society still need and not just the remain illiterate latino of central and south america yet it what che ( 2008 ) gleefully fail to deliver . soderbergh buries his lead because he weak on narrative . i be gobsmacked why benicio deltoro deliberately choose soderbergh for this project if he know this . it be 44yrs and hindsight about guevara be sorely wanted represent it what i go to see this film for and but the director diabolically rob u of that . david stratton and writing in the australian ( 03 oct 2009 ) observe that while part1 be uneven and part2 actually go rapidly downhill from there and chart che final campaign in bolivia in excruciate detail and which . feel almost unbearably slow and turgid . che representthe guerilla aka part2 be certainly no travelogue for bolivia and paint it a picture of misery and atavism . the entire second half be only redeem by the aforementioned humour and and the dramatic yet tragic capture and execution of the film subject . the rest of this interminable cinema verite be just confusing and irritating misery shockingly and for a soderbergh film and to be avoid at all cost . it be bind to break the heart of all who know even just a smatter about the subject . ( negative ) .