Val

Name: Val
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 23, 2021
Duration: 109 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Jack Kilmer, Val Kilmer

2021

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Amazon Studios | Release Date: July 23, 2021 | R

Starring: Jack Kilmer, Val Kilmer

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Prime Video August 6, 2021

Summary: For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone,For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
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Director: Leo Scott and Ting Poo

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 109 min

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Lorry Kikta

Aug 5, 2021

The film has a whimsical surreality to it, just like the actor himself. Read full review

Richard Roeper

Jul 20, 2021

Despite his health problems and a career that carried as many setbacks as triumphs, Kilmer comes across as a self-deprecating, thoughtful, likable and almost jovial figure with a wicked sense of humor and a deep appreciation of artists, writers, poets, actors, thinkers. Read full review

Leah Greenblatt

Aug 6, 2021

The result is undoubtedly a canny mediation on the vagaries of fame, but it feels more intimate and essential than that: a lifetime of searching and self-regard distilled, somehow, into a state of grace. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Jul 21, 2021

The Val Kilmer we meet has been in the arena, realizes he has been lucky despite the hard knocks, and has now achieved what we hope is a lasting peace. His physical voice might be gone, but his inner voice still has much to say. Read full review

Brianna Zigler

Aug 5, 2021

As can be said of its real-life subject, Val is moving, inspiring, funny and fractured. It’s a look at the man and an expansion of the myth, revealing just as much as it continues to obscure. Read full review

Tim Grierson

Jul 11, 2021

Directors Leo Scott and Ting Poo let their subject tell his own story, resulting in a film that’s partly illuminating, sometimes self-indulgent and often quite touching. Read full review

The Playlist Charles Bramesco

Jul 11, 2021

Scott and Poo have seized on one substantive idea in their portraiture of a singular personality reduced to a caricature of himself by posterity and duly reveal the sensitive artiste who always aspired to more than “Top Gun.” If only they did so with less straightforwardness and more authorial license. Read full review

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BuckeyeJD

Aug 9, 2021

I highly recommend watching this. Raw and honest look inside Val Kilmer's life. Great work and a true legend in the acting field.