The Doors Critic Reviews
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Stone's film rolls off the screen with affection and authority, even when Morrison's life enters its sodden, bummed-out finale, and Val Kilmer does an uncanny job of identifying with Morrison. [01 Mar 1991]Read the full review
The Doors is a thrilling spectacle - the King Kong of rock movies - featuring a starmaking, ball-of-fire performance by Val Kilmer as Morrison.Read the full review
It's a slick, smarter than average biopic.Read the full review
It's one hell of a ride and a real, roaring rock movie. [01 Mar 1991]Read the full review
Kilmer seems less dangerous than Morrison, but it's a blessing in the most uncompromising bio of a please- don't-move-next-door type since "Raging Bull." [01 Mar 1991]Read the full review
The experience of watching The Doors is not always very pleasant.Read the full review
I don't care what Dylan said, everyone must not get Stoned.Read the full review
This $40 million look at Jim Morrison's short, wild ride through a rock idol life is everything one expects from the filmmaker - intense, overblown, riveting, humorless, evocative, self-important and impossible to ignore.Read the full review
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.Read the full review
