Another one

Rating: 7/10 (6 April 2007)

Another Stone movie that I do review ... ;o) It's not only because I only watch Stone movies (I don't) or only review his movies (again I don't), but because he has done so many ... and I haven't even watched all of them (which might say something about me, when you know the fact that I might have seen every movie Jean Claude van Damme is in ... Talk about guilty pleasure!)
Anyway let's get down to business: The Doors is obviously as the title would suggest a movie about house entrances ... Sorry couldn't resist a silly joke. It's of course a movie about the group the Doors, although the main focus lies upon Jim Morrison (played by Val Kilmer). One of the career highlights of Val Kilmer, someone who saw him here, would've thought his future had to look bright in the movie industry. Forward to today and he's more known for being difficult on set It's a shame, as he has shown (in the Doors and other movies) that he can be a great actor.
I was (and maybe still am?) not fully aware of the whole Doors/Morrison story. Let's call it their ups and downs, if you will. Stone bases his movie on facts, but took the liberty of making up things, as he went along (making the film). Which is his right as a filmmaker, but something that some people didn't take that lightly, accusing him of being a liar. A parallel to another movie he did recently, about a great conqueror, where he was accused the same things ... although again he was just trying to make a fictional movie about a real thing ... And I assure you, you don't have to be on drugs to get this movie! :o)