Hunky Stud So if I am not mistaken, this TV movie is produced by the people in the USA. I am already impressed by this single fact. Where else in the world, can people have the freedom to produce a movie about the enemy whom their own government is banned to have any contact with? And the USA government certainly didn't have to pre-prove this TV movie before it was broadcasted. USA is not a perfect world, but people do enjoy the freedom of expression.I don't know much about Castro, and I would like to believe that those people really made an honest movie about him. The performance is great. At first, I didn't think that Víctor Huggo Martin was a good actor, but as time goes on, I started to believe his character. I don't know where the casting director found those actors, they all speak English with an Spanish accent which made this movie a little more authentic.Since this movie is over 3 hours long, it was hard to remember what things happened in which year. I hope that when they reproduce the DVD again, they can add something extra on the screen, such as "xx years after 1953." So the audiences can know how long it has been since the the revolution started.Overall, this could be an inspiring movie. Fidel started with one single man, and he was crazy enough to believe that he can take over the whole Cuba, and he was able to inspire all the others to follow him to win the country.

lizard224 As a student of the Cuban Revolution, I was curious to see it portrayed in film. Ultimately, "Fidel" was a let down. The first part of the movie, showing the revolutionizing of Fidel Castro, was very interesting, but once the revolution was over I quickly grew bored. And I was only halfway through the film. The main problem for me was too much dialogue and not enough action. And about 80% of that dialogue seemed to belong to Fidel. Understandably, the movie is about Fidel Castro, and I suppose I shouldn't expect otherwise, but the result was that other characters seemed more like scenery than real people. As a fan of both Che Guevara and Gael Garcia Bernal, I was especially interested in his character. However, I was left especially disappointed by Che's one-dimensional portrayal. It is probable that the other supporting characters were similarly portrayed incompletely, but Che was the most glaring for me since I have studied his history more closely.On the plus side, this movie neither glorifies nor demonizes Fidel Castro excessively, providing a basic and even-handed (although not always completely accurate) summary of the Cuban Revolution if you are someone who knows nothing about it. But from an entertainment standpoint, "Fidel" is long-winded and rather dull.Oh, and what really bothered me was that the dialogue should have been in Spanish with subtitles! I suppose English language makes it more accessible to the American audience it was intended for, but it was weird for me.

diedrichweiss This film was well done technically, although the bias was so prevalent toward posing Castro as a monster with a gentleman's intellect that it felt fictional to anyone who understands modern Cuban history, not necessarily even sypathizes with Castro.So, one can put this film on top of the pile of disinformation concerning Cuba and Castro that has been building devotedly in Miami by the displaced Cuban business class who fled Cuba long ago.Castro is a controversial figure that inspires ideas and debate, not two-dimensional character assassination. His greatest friend in the world is Gabriel Garcia Marquez afterall.I noticed another reviewer said Castro was worse than Saddam. This should prove my point quite clearly.

oaxaca_de_chavez The movie shows how president Fidel Castro fought the injustice of a dictator that oppressed an entire country. In a story that closely resembles the true story of the Cuban revolutionary, "Fidel" shows how the people of Cuba could no longer tolerate the insults of their government and the foreign countries that took advantage of the corruption to make a few extra books at the expense of the country of Cuba. The movie starts with a simple yet important example of the way the country's ideology was treated by their guests.I think for the most part this is a good movie that projects the unwillingness of a country to continue to be treated like slaves.