"Girl we couldn't get much HIGHER"

Rating: Null/10 (16 May 2015)

Oliver Stone's The Doors is a mixed bag for me. The life of Jim Morrison is a complicated one and it would be very hard transferring it to film. Stone gets many things right and also gets things wrong. First I have to talk about Kilmer's great portrayal of Morrison. They really tried to make him look as close as possible to Jim Morrison and they did a great job. Kilmer's singing was also very impressive and he managed to sound very close to Morrison. This biopic takes place in a six year period from the Band's beginnings and successes to Morrison's death in Paris during the summer of 1971. While many parts of the film did actually happen a lot of it did not as there are many historical inaccuracies throughout. It seems like that is many people's main issue with this movie, it got the portrayal of Morrison wrong. In the movie, he is shown always having a bottle in his hand while in reality and according to Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, and Robby Krieger this was simply not true. Many other inaccuracies are peppered throughout the film so make sure to take what you see with a grain of salt. Where this movie really shines though, is the music! All of the Doors' classics are here such as L.A. Woman, Light my Fire, The End, Moonlight Drive, and many others. The other interesting thing about this biopic is the setting of 1960 in which the movie shows the counterculture of America and the affect the Vietnam War had on people. So, while Stone's The Doors doesn't really tell the truth about the band I think it does a damn good job at telling a story.
I don't really think I could give this movie a rating because I wouldn't even know if a number could justify this movie. (I'm not saying the movie is great just hard to give a score to.) But I highly recommend you to watch it.