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 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

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

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

| 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

The film really proves only that Jim was a bad drunk and a worse friend, and that in no way was his life exemplary.

| Nov 21, 2008

Kilmer is convincing in the lead role, although he never allows the viewer to share any emotions.

| Dec 3, 2007

The movie does a pretty good job with period ambience. But it's a long haul waiting for the hero to keel over.

| Dec 3, 2007

Stone sometimes loads the narrative with too much sub-Freudian baggage about Morrison's childhood, but the music, the excess and the excitement come across well.

| Jan 26, 2006

As great a Jim Morrison as Val Kilmer may be, Stone's hallucinagenic excess becomes dull swiftly

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 10, 2005

It is made by a Morrison groupie for other groupies, a film that leaves the rest of us locked outside wondering what the fuss is about.

Full Review | May 20, 2003

I can't recall a film that evokes the myth of the Sixties more potently.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 12, 2001

You get a buzz, all right, but you're left woozy and hung over, and probably won't remember much of what you've seen.

| Jan 1, 2000

Watching the movie is like being stuck in a bar with an obnoxious drunk, when you're not drinking.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 1, 2000

The film is an absurdity -- muddled, self-serious, alienating, a stone drag.

| Jan 1, 2000