The Doors (1991)

Stars	User	Rating
12	luc	99 _99th
Fantastic and super music-movie. Val kilmer played a brilliant role, what a performance of him. Super songs and my favourite movie all time for the moment. Riders on the Storm is my favourite song.
2	SlrSoapbox	35 _10th
Val Kilmer is excellent, and often uncanny when he fills in for Morrison's vocals. However, the film is overlong, has way too much nudity (speaking as a heterosexual woman here) and is completely and utterly irresponsible. I was extremely relieved to find out that a good portion of the depiction of Morrison was fabricated, because this movie nearly made me hate one of my rock gods. So screw you, Oliver Stone.
2	INDYATMN	74 _36th
Was really into the Doors when I saw this and really liked it at the time because of that. Now that I'm older and adapted to the Doors, I'm not as impressed. Oliver Stone drives every point home with a Mack truck with the T-1000 at the wheel. The narrative is a mish-mash, and the indian stuff get repeated once too often but...I can't say I hate it.
2	Suldrup	70 _60th
Kilmer's performance is a tour de force of sheer brilliance, but the film is too long. Stone drags out many of the concert scenes to the point of annoyance, which reflects many of The Doors' long songs. However, in that art form it works, not on the big screen.
1	jimmynmu	63 _43rd
Kilmer did a great job as Morrison.
1	cagedwisdom	25 _17th
KGB says it all in his mini-review.. So there's no reason for me to say it over again. But I will. It was too much over too long a time. The cast is pretty great (including Meg Ryan, who I usually hate), the music is great, but.. meh. Gets boring, and gets way excessive. Jim Morrison is (was) an asshole, and that makes it hard to care about anything that's going on. A fairly annoying film.
1	citysqwirl	84 _81st
Val Kilmer becomes Jim Morrison -- I believed utterly. Meg Ryan is very sweet, too, and the tripping scenes have a realistic vibe.
1	Stain	90 _86th
I admit here that I am a bit biased because I have been a serious Doors fan since I was 14. If _Friday the 13th_ had had 25 Doors songs in it, I might have liked that movie, too. Ray Manzarek flamed Stone in public for what he declared an assassination of Jim Morrison. Stone probably screwed up in a few places, but this is still a very entertaining picture and most likely the best (and only) Doors/Morrison biopic we'll ever get. Crispin Glover as Andy Warhol is a riot
1	kobrande	80 _94th
Very decadent. Worth seeing just to watch Val Kilmer do Jim Morrison. I notice it's categorized as a drama, musical. There's a lot of music, but I wouldn't consider it a musical.
1	gtrmp	70 _49th
Meg Ryan seems to have wandered into the wrong movie somehow.
1	nandorizzi	95 _97th
Val Kilmer is great, like Jim Morrison. I Love The Doors. Good movie. Nice, for to know a bit about the history of them.
1	Vandelay1	70 _75th
good movie
1	tathiel	88 _92nd
Oh, how I loved that movie when it came out, Val Kilmer just nails it!
1	walkearth	75 _89th
A peek into the madman's mind. An insane film. Literally. A movie about a crazy man with both alcoholic and drug problems. Or at least that's what the film tells us. I was relieved to find out that this was not entirely the truth, it was partly fabricated. Howsoever, it made me hate Jim Morrison. Or love him, I don't know.
1	wetwillies	50 _4th
The movie feels like an SNL sketch, and I don't think it could be any other way. There's maybe a better film in here, behind the posturing and the emptiness, but posturing and emptiness are what made Jim Morrison a star, and if you're not willing to challenge him on his emptiness, then you're going to look a bit undercooked. Ride the snake to the lake, baby.
1	Yiannos	58 _41st
It's probably too much to ask a member of Stone's generation to be remotely objective about The Doors, especially if they're a fan like Stone. With that in mind, it's perhaps not surprising that he conforms to the cult of Jim, which has obscured both Morrison's complexity and the band members' invaluable contributions to the genre of rock, so it's disappointing to see Stone play so blatantly to it. Kilmer gives a star making performance as the Lizard King, but The Doors deserved better.
1	TBW	30 _5th
I don't know, movies about loser addicts wasting their lives are hard for me to watch, even if they were famous and had something resembling talent

Average Percentile 49.87% from 3136 Ratings