As deep as pond scum and about as interesting

Rating: Null/10 (21 March 2002)

This has to be one of the most boring biographies ever made about such a famous person. Stone seems to have been completely uninterested in getting "inside the head" of his subject, Jim Morrison (despite the film's title, the other three bandmembers are strictly supporting cast) and instead simply presents re-creations of various events in his life without the slightest attempt at getting beyond the public persona. Stone seems to accept (and parrot) Morrison's mythology and public image and one comes away from the movie with no insight beyond "He was this, like, shaman kind of guy, and he was, like, really cool. And stuff."