Che

My rating is not based on the movie's historical accuracy, but its own merit as a standalone movie.

Che tries to hint at the darker sides of fascism and war. It starts out as very promising, but right up until the very underwhelming end it just seems to be starting out.

Ambitious, but heavily toned down from what horrors it aims to project at the big screen. The dialog could have been done much better. It sounds more like parts of The Matrix that pretended to be philosophical, but were really copies of tired 90's cliches. They were far and few between, and they just ended up adding to the spice of the movie. Che is all spice.

My reason for the stars I left is the impression it left on me in the beginning. I thought perhaps this is the right direction for movies to go, but I soon discovered at later watchings that it's not your morally relativistic bundle of bittersweet joy for when you can take a heavy film, it just pretends to be. Much better than the cartoonish depiction of the horrors of an uneven war, but nothing revolutionary.

Falls shorts of even Hatamikia's standards.