Open your "Doors" to this movie ...

Rating: 9/10 (22 April 2019)

Read a lot of reviews here and many are hung up on the fact that it was more about Morrison than about the band ... Maybe Oliver Stone called it "The Doors" referring to the meaning of the band's name and not so much the group itself ... Either way, even though the Doors had GREAT musicians, the Doors would NOT be the Doors without Morrison...
ANYWAY, IMHO ...
What DID work: the way the movie included the music and when, the scenes, the 60's feeling, Val Kilmer's performance, the final shots at the Lachaise cemetery ... even Oliver Stone's interpretation of where Morrison was at, his identification with native Americans, the lizard king, his love for poetry ... why The Doors are such an important R&R band ...
What did NOT work: Some of the exaggerations or made up scenes (Pam's burning, thanksgiving), showing Jim Morrison as very (ironically) one-dimensional... he just wants to get fed-up ... Robbie's line: "you like pain but you are constantly trying to avoid it" shows what Oliver Stone thought ...
Final recommendation: If you like music and you are not old like me and want to get a sense of what that time was like (leaving some room for doubt as this is Stone's perception after all), then do watch this movie!