Engaging
I found this film very enjoyable. It's an engaging look at an interesting subject, Castro, who most of the world would have been much happier had he just gone away. Well, there were many attempts on his life, and some are just so crazy, you know they have to be true. You certainly come away from the film pretty certain that Castro is not the crazy one among this cast of characters...

Terrorism versus 'fun & games'
A brilliant British-made film that would be outrageously funny if its subject were not so deadly serious. "638 Ways to Kill Castro" features a wealth of old film clips, backed up with great firsthand interviews of some of the people who had plotted to assassinate Cuban president Fidel Castro over the years. Cuban-Americans in Florida, USA openly and proudly talk in the film of the need to kill off "The Beard," as the aging Cuban leader is called, essentially to save humanity.

I always pay great attention to a movie's soundtrack, and I also really like the music that the filmmakers have used for the interplay of characters and scenes throughout the film.

Secret operations are often known in the U.S. covert intelligence community as "fun and games," and, as the film shows, the obsession of several U.S. presidents -- from Eisenhower to, yes, Clinton -- has made "getting" Castro the biggest game of all. Never mind that the U.S. government has worked with some of the most notorious figures in the mafia and Cuban exile community to try and "get" their man. One such well-known figure, interviewed in the film, is Luis Posada Carriles, who today is living freely and openly in the United States.

In this age of the "war on terrorism," this film brings home the irony of how one nation's terrorism can be another nation's "fun and games." The film is well-researched and well-edited, entertaining and informative. History, humor and some home-grown filmmaking hubris earn this one 5 stars for sure.

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