Movie about a hero? Or just a very damaged trouble maker?

Rating: 7/10 (31 March 2020)

Forth most, telling this tale of Jim Morrison, it's about an artist, an actual true poet of the modern age, a wild and tormented soul and perhaps a true seeker of existential truth. It's also about the 60s and 70s hippie culture and music.
Val Kilmer does a pretty good performance. Meg Ryan is good too, well worth mentioning. And it's amazing how Kilmer almost sounds as Jim Morrison when he sings. It's about sex, drugs and rock n roll, and a little love and romance too. It's also about the rise from the nobody to fame and fortune. It's about the dynamics within a band group. It's about a piece of cultural history of the modern age.
It's a pretty good film. I saw the directors cut, which is almost 2 and a half hour, and enjoyed the entire ride of the movie. Though it did get a bit boring at times and sometimes felt didn't really have that much of a point. But sure, Jim Morrison was a very interesting individual, his life and persona is well worth to try to tell a story about. As those larger then life characters are always good fun, especially when their based on real people. And Morrison was perhaps a bit crazy, but he was also very real. That's what I think anyway. This movie is very much worth seeing if you're into the music scene of the 60s and 70s. Though, even if a good movie, Almost Famous is a bit more charming and entertaining, but that's just what I think.