I feel like Jack Nicholson in Batman… “Where does he get those wonderful toys?”. Although in this case it’s not toys, it’s scripts.

The good folks over at Latino Review have a script review of the Stephen Soderbergh directed movie The Argentine, which is set to star Benicio Del Toro in the lead role. The movie is a biopic on the life of ‘Che’ Guevara, and is the first of two movies shot in the Spanish language that both Soderbergh and Del Toro will be filming on his life, which we first reported way back in October.

This is what they thought of the movie…

Overall, The Argentine feels like a war movie and at times reminded me of Platoon. We see how Ernesto Guevara is shaped into the man the world will come to know as El Che. The Argentine will be Soderberg’s most action packed movie because it is essentially a war movie, yet it has all the subtlety of Solaris.

There is tons more in the full review of at Latino Review, but obviously it’s full of spoilers. You can read the review by clicking here, they give it a solid B grade.

I have to admit, I’m quite intrigued for seeing this thing when it finally gets made. Benicio Tel Doro has really impressed me over the last few years and has shown to be how talented he really is. 

The life of ‘Che’ Guevara, is a fascinating tale which deserves to be told on screen, even if in a few years time we will have three movies made on the guy this century (Soderbergh’s 2 and of course The Motorcycle Diaries that was out a while back).  

source – latino review