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DRAWN OUT: Benicio del Toro as Che Guevara

This first part examines, in meticulously reconstructed detail, how Che helped Castro to overthrow the corrupt regime in Cuba. Che is played with intelligence and energy by Benicio del Toro, but Soderbergh is way too solemn in his storytelling.

Every little event in this struggle is shown, from one confusing skirmish to another, interspersed with terse conversations. It dawdles along for over two hours, and even then we are only halfway there. There is a second film Che - Part 2, which is even longer. There is a difference between making a movie and building a monument, but sadly, in this film, Soderbergh cannot tell the difference.

Zombieland

Drenched in blood but loaded with laughs, Zombieland is an outrageous road-trip farce. It features a gung-ho hillbilly (Woody Harrelson) and a neurotic nerd (Jesse Eisenberg) who are forced to team up with two tough gun-toting sisters, played by Emma Stone and Abigail Breslin, because it seems that every other person in the US has become a crazy, flesh-eating ghoul. It's Night of the Living Dead re-structured as a slapstick comedy in which bloody dismemberment is played for comedy.

It shouldn't work, but it does, in a nudging, nasty kind of way, but the one reason to see it is Bill Murray's turn as zombie. It's a comedy gem.