The film tells the story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison, from his days as a UCLA film student in Los Angeles, to his untimely death in Paris, France at age 27 in 1971.
28 December 1971, Salem, Massachusetts, USA
13 February 1968, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
10 June 1973
12 May 1970, Dodge City, Kansas, USA
29 March 1955, Santa Monica, California, USA
8 November 1944, Alton, Illinois, USA
20 November 1925, Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
4 March 1946, New York City, New York, USA
8 January 1946, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 January 1963, New York City, New York, USA
3 September 1965, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
23 November 1963, San Diego, California, USA
8 January 1931, Berlin, Germany
25 September 1958, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 March 1928, Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
13 August 1965, Sacramento, California, USA
28 May 1944, Riverside, California, USA
22 February 1959, Yakima, Washington, USA
20 July 1963, Syracuse, New York, USA
12 March 1945, New York City, New York, USA
June 17, 2014
Morrison is played with uncanny authenticity by Val Kilmer. The performance is utterly convincing without being terribly illuminating.June 17, 2014
While it has its moments, taken by itself, The Doors amounts to little more than an impressionistic look at a boy and his death wish.June 17, 2014
Insidiously funny and remarkably truthful about the psychedelic rock scene in the late 1960.June 17, 2014
For a while, the obviousness and flat-out vulgarity are sort of entertaining, and it might be possible to enjoy the movie as a camp classic if you could ignore the mean-spiritedness that keeps breaking through.June 17, 2014
The whole movie is white hot, lapped in honeyed golds, evilly blue and black or drenched in those swoony, fiery reds. The Doors blasts your ears and scorches your eyes.June 17, 2014
The movie is weighed down by its enchantment with the mythology, as opposed to the reality, of Morrison's life -- a mythology that needs to be explored, not simply reproduced on the wide screen.June 17, 2014
Val Kilmer does, however, pull off a remarkable impression of the troubled vocalist, although he's more convincing on stage than he is in his drunken, drug-fuelled reveries.June 17, 2014
The much-anticipated film is a psychedelic circus that turns into the worst nightmare of a bad trip. It`s an experience.June 17, 2014
The flaw in the film is its unrelenting tone of bombast. It never gives you a break. You ache for a moment of quietude, an escape from the lizard king's cranium.June 17, 2014
Val Kilmer gives the performance of his career as Jim Morrison in Oliver Stone's biopic, so it's a shame the surrounding film lets him down.June 17, 2014
Hysteria, however skillfully maintained, should never be mistaken for art -- a caution that applies equally to Stone and his subject.June 17, 2014
Both a vibrant tribute to rock cult figure Jim Morrison and to the decade in which he flourished.