As a follow up to Part One I watched Part Two last night. At 135 minutes its another long film but in this case needed.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0374569/

The film starts with Fidel Castro giving a speech and reading a letter from Che. Who was at this point in the Congo trying to help with the revolution there. (There is the diary for the Congo available and a bloody good read). It explains why Che is no longer in Cuba and to put an end to rumours of why he isn't seen.

The action of this film starts in Cuba 1966 with Che being disguised so that he can travel to Bolivia. He along with a number of other Cubans travel via different routes and are taken to a farm in Bolivia that is their main camp.

The film this time is filmed with hand held cameras and you see the everyday mundane things that happen during a revolution, the problems the people face and how they interact with the locals who unlike in Cuba are not ready for a revolution.

Unlike Part One, this is a film about how when the conditions are not correct that the people and Communist party leadership wont back you and everything breaks down how badly it can go wrong.

To write the film they used Che's Bolivian diary and the members who got out of Bolivia and back to Cuba. If you hadn't guessed Che dies in Bolivia. The old woman who you see towards the end was thought in the diary to have given away the location but she hadn't and that was the last entry made by Che. The rest of the film is from people who witnessed what happened including Felix Rodriguez who would give the CIA order to kill him.

I prefer this film over Part One, I cant put my finger on why. It seems more real, you see a man change and realise things are not working. And in the end who is ready to face his own death with the words go on shoot you are only killing a man

I give this film 9 out of 10. It is that good I prefer it to the first part and I hope they make a film about the Congo because after reading that diary he speaks so well about his own failing as he does in this but I think he was more brutal with himself in the Congo.

In the words of the Commandante Hasta la victoria siempre.