The Doors

Oliver Stone

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The Doors

Synopsis

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.

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Cast

Val KilmerJim Morrison
Meg RyanPamela Courson
Kyle MacLachlanRay Manzarek
Frank WhaleyRobby Krieger
Kevin DillonJohn Densmore
Michael WincottPaul Rothchild
Michael MadsenTom Baker
Josh EvansBill Siddons
Dennis BurkleyDog
Billy IdolCat

Recommendations

88
Rolling Stone
The Doors is a thrilling spectacle - the King Kong of rock movies - featuring a starmaking, ball-of-fire performance by Val Kilmer as Morrison.
80
Washington Post
It's a slick, smarter than average biopic.
63
Chicago Sun-Times
The experience of watching The Doors is not always very pleasant.
60
Empire
Val Kilmer is extraordinary as Morrison, holding the centre with a demonic charisma, while Stone recreates the late '60s milieu with vibrant versimilitude.
50
Chicago Reader
The movie does a pretty good job with period ambience. But it's a long haul waiting for the hero to keel over.
50
TV Guide Magazine
By recreating things too well, the film itself becomes as boring, indulgent and over-stuffed as its hero.
50
Variety
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.
50
Washington Post
I don't care what Dylan said, everyone must not get Stoned.