Che: Part Two

The second installment of Steven Soderbergh's biographical account of the legendary revolutionary Ernesto 'Che' Guevara moves the action to Bolivia, where our hero attempted to replicate the success of the Cuban revolution. But, alas, the revolt was crushed and Guevara was executed in 1967 by the Bolivian army.

Where Part One dwelled on the myth of Che - how he became demonised by the American authorities and revered around the world - Part Two seems to focus more on logistics. There is a real, meticulous quality to the account of just how and why things went correctly in Cuba and belly-up in Bolivia – just as some of the most flourishing moments in Soderbergh's Ocean's movies happened to be when the precise tactics required to steal a diamond or drill into a casino were revealed.

This could all sound rather dry, but just as he populated his Ocean's movies with some of Hollywood's warmest stars, here Soderbergh gives all this technical hoo-ha a heart in the shape of Benicio Del Toro as Guevara. It's another rich, studied-yet-easy performance that brings a true human quality to one of the last century's most important figures. ·