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100An excessive, expressionistic, agreeably nonjudgmental period biography that carries with it an enormous emotional wallop. [01 Mar 1991]
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As writer/director, he manages to make both Morrison and the period seem real without being self-conscious, an observed milieu rather than a film set. [01 Mar 1991]
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88The Doors is a thrilling spectacle - the King Kong of rock movies - featuring a starmaking, ball-of-fire performance by Val Kilmer as Morrison.
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88Stone's film rolls off the screen with affection and authority, even when Morrison's life enters its sodden, bummed-out finale, and Val Kilmer does an uncanny job of identifying with Morrison. [01 Mar 1991]
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88The Doors is excessive, unsubtle, emotionally brutal and stylistically sadistic, but that's exactly right for the dark side of the sixties Morrison and his band embodied. [01 Mar 1991]
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80It's one hell of a ride and a real, roaring rock movie. [01 Mar 1991]
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It's a slick, smarter than average biopic.
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75Oliver Stone's film paints a reasonably complex portrait of Morrison's life and times. [01 Mar 1991]
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63The experience of watching The Doors is not always very pleasant.
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63Kilmer seems less dangerous than Morrison, but it's a blessing in the most uncompromising bio of a please- don't-move-next-door type since "Raging Bull." [01 Mar 1991]
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60Val Kilmer is extraordinary as Morrison, holding the centre with a demonic charisma, while Stone recreates the late '60s milieu with vibrant versimilitude.
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50Hysteria, however skillfully maintained, should never be mistaken for art-a caution that applies equally to Stone and his subject. [01 Mar 1991]
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50By recreating things too well, the film itself becomes as boring, indulgent and over-stuffed as its hero.
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You don't see The Doors, you survive it. [01 Mar 1991]
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50This $40 million look at Jim Morrison's short, wild ride through a rock idol life is everything one expects from the filmmaker - intense, overblown, riveting, humorless, evocative, self-important and impossible to ignore.
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50I don't care what Dylan said, everyone must not get Stoned.
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50The movie does a pretty good job with period ambience. But it's a long haul waiting for the hero to keel over.
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It is made by a Morrison groupie for other groupies, a film that leaves the rest of us locked outside wondering what the fuss is about.
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20Maybe it was fun to bathe in decadence back then. But this is no time to wallow in that mire.
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