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The Doors

1991

Oliver Stone

Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kevin Dillon, Kyle MacLachlan ...

6.8

16,142

Drama Val Kilmer stars as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's electrifying profile of the Doors, which takes the group from its inception to its demise with the death of the "Lizard King" in a Paris hotel room in 1971. In the early days of the group's formation, Morrison is at his most benign; he's just a guy hanging out at the beach writing poetry. But soon the Doors' fame begins to spread--with Morrison as the focus of attention. Capable of an ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Caryn James The New York Times	"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."	NEU
United States	Variety	"[It] is everything one expects from the filmmaker – intense, overblown, riveting, humorless, evocative, self-important and impossible to ignore."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The performance is the best thing in the movie (...) The experience of watching 'The Doors' is not always very pleasant (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Alex von Tunzelmann The Guardian	"With more stagger than swagger this Jim Morrison biopic looks great, but there's not a lot going on underneath"	NEU
United States	Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader	"15 minutes of peace and love (if that much) and two hours of puritanical retribution (...) The movie does a pretty good job with period ambience"	NEU
United Kingdom	Steve Grant Time Out	"The music, the excess and the excitement come across well; there are splendid cameos"	POS
United States	Hal Hinson The Washington Post	"While on the one hand Stone acknowledges how basically pointless and destructive his excesses became, on the other, he keeps implying that it's all part of the creative process"	NEU
United Kingdom	Angie Errigo Empire	"Val Kilmer is extraordinary as Morrison, holding the centre with a demonic charisma, while Stone recreates the late '60s milieu with vibrant versimilitude (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Hock Teh IGN	"It's a visual feast with Val Kilmer disproving ALL of his critics with an amazing performance"	POS

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