Other members already mentioned the issues with this film, more importantly the script, characters and story. The first 30 minutes show us nothing.
The movie starts saying : " Simon Bolivar fought over 100 battles against the Spanish Empire in South America. He rode over 70,000 miles on horseback. His military campaigns covered twice the territory of Alexander the Great. His army never conquered -- it liberated."
Yet his Wikipedia page claims: "Bolívar fought 472 battles, of which 79 were important ones, and during his campaigns rode on horseback 123,000 kilometers, which is 10 times more than Hannibal, three times more than Napoleon, and twice as much as Alexander the Great."
So, you can understand that these are all propaganda and exaggerated claims. He just wanted to grab power and govern all Latin America. He didn't believe in democracy and said that societies like Venezuela "will require a firm hand".
Henri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein described him as a coward who repeatedly abandoned his military commission in front of the enemy, and also as a great lover of women, being accompanied at all times by two or more of his mistresses during the military operations. He would not hesitate to stop the fleet transporting the whole army and bound for Margarita Island during two days in order to wait for his mistress to join his ship. According to Ducoudray Holstein, Bolívar behaved essentially as an opportunist preferring intrigues and secret manipulation to an open fight. He was also deemed incompetent in military matters, systematically avoiding any risks and permanently anxious for his own safety.
Karl Marx dismissed Bolívar as a "falsifier, deserter, conspirator, liar, coward and looter", and a "false liberator who merely sought to preserve the power of the old Creole nobility to which he belonged."
He also says that that Bolívar abandoned his troops multiple times and writes that Bolívar had to be persuaded by his cousin Ribas to return to fight against the Spanish after staying in Cartagena. Marx then penned that after arriving in Caracas in 1813, Bolívar's "dictatorship soon proved a military anarchy, leaving the most important affairs in the hands of favorites, who squandered the finances of the country, and then resorted to odious means in order to restore them."
The movie starts saying : " Simon Bolivar fought over 100 battles against the Spanish Empire in South America. He rode over 70,000 miles on horseback. His military campaigns covered twice the territory of Alexander the Great. His army never conquered -- it liberated."
Yet his Wikipedia page claims: "Bolívar fought 472 battles, of which 79 were important ones, and during his campaigns rode on horseback 123,000 kilometers, which is 10 times more than Hannibal, three times more than Napoleon, and twice as much as Alexander the Great."
So, you can understand that these are all propaganda and exaggerated claims. He just wanted to grab power and govern all Latin America. He didn't believe in democracy and said that societies like Venezuela "will require a firm hand".
Henri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein described him as a coward who repeatedly abandoned his military commission in front of the enemy, and also as a great lover of women, being accompanied at all times by two or more of his mistresses during the military operations. He would not hesitate to stop the fleet transporting the whole army and bound for Margarita Island during two days in order to wait for his mistress to join his ship. According to Ducoudray Holstein, Bolívar behaved essentially as an opportunist preferring intrigues and secret manipulation to an open fight. He was also deemed incompetent in military matters, systematically avoiding any risks and permanently anxious for his own safety.
Karl Marx dismissed Bolívar as a "falsifier, deserter, conspirator, liar, coward and looter", and a "false liberator who merely sought to preserve the power of the old Creole nobility to which he belonged."
He also says that that Bolívar abandoned his troops multiple times and writes that Bolívar had to be persuaded by his cousin Ribas to return to fight against the Spanish after staying in Cartagena. Marx then penned that after arriving in Caracas in 1813, Bolívar's "dictatorship soon proved a military anarchy, leaving the most important affairs in the hands of favorites, who squandered the finances of the country, and then resorted to odious means in order to restore them."