Four hours and twenty eights minutes. A bruising film-watching experience that was prolonged by an intermission rewarded with this lunch bag we find below. My first impressions pretty much falls more or less in line with the consensus – it’s a visceral experience with a fractured timeline and succeeds as the first test for the RED technology: the high def digital camera looks great. While I got a better sense of who Guevara might have been in Salles’ The Motorcycle Diaries, with The Argentine we have a good structure and Del Toro totally submerges himself into the iconic role, but there is a long list of throw away characters and a lack of depth in presenting the biofacts. This only gets reconfirmed in his unfinished print (film in progress) project.
Sales agent Wild Bunch should have put the breaks on presented part II – I would have requested that Soderbergh put all of his energies into the first film, get buyers into a frenzy,
place the condition of picking up both films with a grand premiere at the Venice film festival for the second part. Guerrilla is zero engaging and needs work – it reminded me of b&w cowboys & indian films where both sides are fighting on steep mountain tops. Full review of both films coming soon!
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