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
Washington Post
It's a slick, smarter than average biopic.
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The experience of watching The Doors is not always very pleasant.
60
EmpireAngie Errigo
EmpireAngie Errigo
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 ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
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
TV Guide Magazine
By recreating things too well, the film itself becomes as boring, indulgent and over-stuffed as its hero.
50
Variety
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.