This two-part, four-hour-and-a half-hour epic look at Argentinean revolutionary Che Guevara is tedious, overlong and self-indulgent.

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Director Steven Soderbergh creates a $60 million dollar art film aimed to be an epic look at the life of famed Argentinean rebel, Che Guevara (Benicio Del Toro). Split into two parts that may be shown either together or in separate engagements, the director seems intent on rewriting the book on biopics and in doing so, has completely muted a potentially…

Steven Soderbergh definitely has a pair on him. What other director would expect us to follow him through a four-and-a-half-hour epic — in Spanish with English subtitles — about Ernesto "Che" Guevara, the Argentine doctor who helped Fidel Castro pull off the Cuban revolution? When Che opens in a few weeks, you can experience it in a single big sit or catch it in two parts (the first film is called The Argentine, the second Guerrilla) or rent it on DVD as early as January. Confession: Despite my…