
Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written ... (Full plot summary below)
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Oliver Stone's homage to 1960s rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971. The movie features a tour-de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals.
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| Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldThe Doors is a thrilling spectacle - the King Kong of rock movies - featuring a starmaking, ball-of-fire performance by Val Kilmer as Morrison. |
| Boston GlobeJay CarrIt's a slick, smarter than average biopic. |
| Seattle TimesJohn HartlInsidiously funny and remarkably truthful about the psychedelic rock scene in the late 1960. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelBoth a vibrant tribute to rock cult figure Jim Morrison and to the decade in which he flourished. |
| Orlando SentinelJay BoyarAfter the first hour or so of The Doors, the only door I wanted to see was the one marked ''EXIT.'' |
| Projection BoothRob HumanickThe Doors plays out like an epic hangover one expects to never recover from. |
| Tulsa WorldDennis KingMorrison is played with uncanny authenticity by Val Kilmer. The performance is utterly convincing without being terribly illuminating. |
| Washington PostJoe BrownYou get a buzz, all right, but you're left woozy and hung over, and probably won't remember much of what you've seen. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael WilmingtonThe experience of watching The Doors is not always very pleasant. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversI can't recall a film that evokes the myth of the Sixties more potently. |