Bad Movie, Good Band

Rating: Null/10 (12 April 2002)

Val Kilmer is the reason this movie is even possible to sit through. Oliver Stone really came up with a clunker with "The Doors". It's a pretty boring movie and you find yourself getting sick of Jim Morrison getting drunk, using drugs, and being abusive. I was hoping for a little more insight into the band and into the music, not into the "mystique" (or drunken haze) of the frontman Morrison. Not that he isn't interesting or talented, but the music of the Doors supercedes his downward spiraling life. Go read a book or something, but don't see this movie if you can avoid it. Also stay away from Stone's "any given sunday" as it is a HUGE stinker.