[Val] Kilmer was no doubt the heart and soul of The Doors that holding the biopic together.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2025

A bomb.

| Original Score: 1/4 | May 9, 2023

The Doors is entertaining for the most part but the gem is Kilmer's performance of the rock legend who passed away before his time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 24, 2019

Oliver Stone's The Doors is a grandiose, highly kinetic, film that flourishes in its own excess.

| Apr 19, 2019

Morrison is played with uncanny authenticity by Val Kilmer. The performance is utterly convincing without being terribly illuminating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 17, 2014

For a while, the obviousness and flat-out vulgarity are sort of entertaining, and it might be possible to enjoy the movie as a camp classic if you could ignore the mean-spiritedness that keeps breaking through.

| Jun 17, 2014

Hysteria, however skillfully maintained, should never be mistaken for art -- a caution that applies equally to Stone and his subject.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 17, 2014

While it has its moments, taken by itself, The Doors amounts to little more than an impressionistic look at a boy and his death wish.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 17, 2014

Insidiously funny and remarkably truthful about the psychedelic rock scene in the late 1960.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 17, 2014

The flaw in the film is its unrelenting tone of bombast. It never gives you a break. You ache for a moment of quietude, an escape from the lizard king's cranium.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 17, 2014

The whole movie is white hot, lapped in honeyed golds, evilly blue and black or drenched in those swoony, fiery reds. The Doors blasts your ears and scorches your eyes.

| Jun 17, 2014

The much-anticipated film is a psychedelic circus that turns into the worst nightmare of a bad trip. It`s an experience.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 17, 2014

Both a vibrant tribute to rock cult figure Jim Morrison and to the decade in which he flourished.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 17, 2014

The movie is weighed down by its enchantment with the mythology, as opposed to the reality, of Morrison's life -- a mythology that needs to be explored, not simply reproduced on the wide screen.

| Jun 17, 2014

Val Kilmer does, however, pull off a remarkable impression of the troubled vocalist, although he's more convincing on stage than he is in his drunken, drug-fuelled reveries.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2014

Val Kilmer gives the performance of his career as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's biopic, so it's a shame the surrounding film lets him down.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2014

After the first hour or so of The Doors, the only door I wanted to see was the one marked ''EXIT.''

| Jun 17, 2014

Stone is not the most subtle of directors, but he has the ability to translate his passion for subject matter (he's an unabashed admirer of Morrison) to the screen with a strong visual flair. That talent in evidence here.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 17, 2014

Whatever reservations one may have about this exhausting, dark-side-of-the-'60s epic, there can be little doubt that Stone has captured a particular, bombs-away brand of rock & roll excess with definitive candor.

| Original Score: B | Sep 7, 2011

Val Kilmer is extraordinary as Morrison, holding the centre with a demonic charisma, while Stone recreates the late '60s milieu with vibrant versimilitude.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2011