The Motorcycle Diaries2004
The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)
TOMATOMETER
AUDIENCE SCORE
Critic Consensus: The Motorcycle Diaries is heartfelt and profound in its rendering of the formative experiences that turn Ernesto "Che" Guerva into a famous revolutionary.
The Motorcycle Diaries Photos
Movie Info
Watch it now
People Who Like this movie also like
Cast
as Ernesto `Che' Guevara
as Alberto Granado
as Chichina Ferreyra

as Dr. Hugo Pesce
as Celia de la Serna

as Dr. Bresciani
as Ernesto Guevara Lynch

as Roberto Guevara
as Celita Guevara

as Ana Maria Guevara

as Juan Martin Guevara

as Uncle Jorge
as Young Traveler

as Young Traveller

as Rodolfo

as Tomas Granado

as Kid

as Kid

as Kid

as Kid

as La Negra

as Chichina Friend

as Chichina Friend

as Chichina Friend

as Chichina Friend

as Chichina Friend

as Chichina Friend

as Chichina Friend

as Horacio Ferreyra

as Uncle Martin

as Esteban Aguirre

as Chichina's Mother

as Man with Oxen Cart

as Don Olate

as Von Puttkamer

as Schatzie Von Puttkamer

as Luna

as Tulio
as Piedad

as Araucano Father

as Araucano Son

as Chilean Sister

as Chilean Sister

as Waiter

as Fire Chief

as Canaco

as Fireman

as Janitor

as Old Woman

as Mechanical

as Truck Driver
as Miner

as Miner's Wife

as Mine Foreman

as Chipi Chipi Band Singer

as Chipi Chipi Band Pianist

as Chipi Chipi Band Percussionist/Trumpeter

as Chipi Chipi Band Clarinet/Accordion

as Chipi Chipi Band Double Bass Player

as Felix

as Zdneka Pesce

as Luis Pesce

as Tito Pesce

as Peruvian from Canepa

as Luz

as Card Player

as Card Player

as Card Player

as Card Player

as Banca

as Sister Margarita

as Young Indian Nurse

as Papa Carlito

as Mother Sister Alberto

as Leper from San Pablo

as Leper from San Pablo
as Silvia

as Dr. Souza
News & Interviews for The Motorcycle Diaries
Critic Reviews for The Motorcycle Diaries
All Critics (155) | Top Critics (41) | Fresh (130) | Rotten (25) | DVD (15)
Walter Salles's well-observed movie downplays politics for humanism. It's a picturesque tale that, hobbled by its episodic structure, never achieves full steam.
A marvelous road picture and boys-become-men adventure, full of the best kind of idealism.
A dull, unsatisfying experience -- as well as inconclusive.
Well-acted, beautifully shot and broad and personal, The Motorcycle Diaries is nonetheless undermined in the end by a clunky search for meaning and depth that seems forced.
Quietly exhilarating, soulful and sincerely romantic.
It's about the gradual wakening into awareness, the graduation from carefree youth to responsible adulthood.

Audience Reviews for The Motorcycle Diaries
As a road trip film, it's stellar. As a historical insight into the events and psychological gear grinding that influenced the revolutionary leader known as Che Guevarra, it falters.
Super Reviewer
Whatever the intentions of its filmmakers what ultimately succeeds here is the opening of South America as more than simply a world party/nightclub stop as two young professionals put their promising lives on hold for a bit in order to sightsee their own unknown and surprisingly impoverished continent.
Super Reviewer
The Motorcycle Diaries is a wonderful, heartfelt film about two Argentinians who decide to bike across South America from Buenos Aires, to Valpariso, and on to Machu Picchu and Caracas in Venezuela. Gael Garcia Bernal and Rodrigo de la Serna star in this beautifully photographed, profound film, but the film doesn't go into any details about Ernesto "Che" Guevara's life as the Cuban Revolutionary, and the story gets pretty scattered and it's sometimes hard to know where they are in the trip or how they got to where they are.
Super Reviewer
The Motorcycle Diaries Quotes
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: | How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? |
Ernesto Guevara de la Serna: | You gotta fight for every breath and tell death to go to hell. |