Oliver Stone's homage to 60's rock group The Doors also doubles as a biography of the group's late singer, the "Electric Poet" Jim Morrison. The movie follows Morrison from his days as a film student in Los Angeles to his death in Paris in 1971, at the age of 27. The movies features a tour- de-force performance by Val Kilmer, who not only looks like Jim Morrison's long-lost twin brother, but also sounds so much like him that he did much of his own singing. It has been written that even the surviving Doors had trouble distinguishing Kilmer's vocals from Morrison's originals.
Val Kilmer put together a terrific performance as Jim Morrison. I can't believe he didn't even get an Oscar nomination for this. Michael Wincott was awesome as well. I didn't and still don't know a lot about The Doors or Jim Morrison. I've heard and like a couple of their songs. Pretty interesting take by Oliver Stone but not much about his youth or really how the band was formed.
