Val (2021)

• Year: 2021
• Released: 06 Aug 2021
• Country: United States
• Adwords: 2 wins & 24 nominations
• IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14731254/
• Rotten Tomatoes: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/val
• Metacritics: https://www.metacritic.com/movie/val
• Available in: 720p, 1080p,
• Language: English
• MPA Rating: R
• Genre: Documentary, Biography
• Runtime: 109 min
• Writer: N/A
• Director: Ting Poo, Leo Scott
• Cast: Val Kilmer, Jack Kilmer, Mercedes Kilmer
• Keywords: hollywood, cancer, actor, a24, throat cancer,

	7.6/10
	73/100
	93% – Critics
	90% – Audience

Val Storyline

Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial actors, has been documenting his life and craft through film. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster films like Top Gun and Batman. This raw and wildly original documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled look at what it means to be an artist.

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This is honest

This documentary by Val Kilmer about Val Kilmer is about as honest as you can get about his life. It is no fluff piece. It peels back the layers of the once super star, a-lister, to reveal his hidden personal life, from both his youth and adult life.

This reminds me of the recent documentary called Kid 90, about Soleil Moon Frye, who took home movies about nearly every aspect of her life.

I can’t find anything wrong with the production but that I think he doesn’t touch on a few things. He’s as honest as he can be with out pulling all the skeletons out of his closet. For that I respect his work, but not removing all the hidden past is more likely to avoid embarrassment or legal issues.

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I suppose as much is to be expected given that Val Kilmer is the producer of his life story here, as well as providing the numerous hours of camcorder footage over the years from which it was edited, that “Val” is overly hagiographical and superficial. It’s like someone narrating their autobiography, detailing family trips and such, to you as you politely flip through their photo album or watch their home videos, or the equivalent of liking someone’s pics or vids on their Facebook page, or Instagram, or whatever the platform for photographic narcissism is these days. Considering the portrait here is of a good actor with a notorious reputation for being “difficult,” I was hoping for more than that.

Instead, we get a lot of childhood backstory and the highlights of his career rise, from “Top Gun” (1986), “Tombstone” (1993) and “Batman Forever” (1995), to the ill-fated “The Island of Dr. Moreau” (1996), then skipping through a bunch else, to his one-man Mark Twain stand-up comedian play, before Kilmer’s acting career was entirely derailed by throat cancer taking his voice (consequently, his son provides much of the narration here). I would’ve liked more insight into his acting approach than, say, him remarking on how poor the script of “Top Gun” was, but how it was saved by Tony Scott’s direction, or how he’s so good in “Tombstone” because the script was so good. And, Kilmer building up Marlon Brando as his hero to, then, have the only footage of them working together on “Dr. Moreau” being Brando ignoring him aside from demanding a push as he lies in a hammock was awkward.

The “difficult” label that he received is also glossed over, with the exception of some video of him arguing with “Dr. Moreau” director John Frankenheimer over the director threatening to quit and Kilmer refusing to turn off the video camera. We also learn how awful it was to star as Batman, with a suit that severely limited his ability to act–or even hear. Probably little wonder, then, that Kilmer and Joel Schumacher didn’t get along, either.

Otherwise, we mostly learn how rough life can be, I guess, especially when smoking causes cancer. Although, as in the spirit of the rest of the documentary, smoking isn’t mentioned here, either. Indeed, one could probably learn more about Kilmer, including from Kilmer himself, by reading his interviews elsewhere or books. He gave a quality and concise response to the “difficult” label in a Reddit thread once, for instance. The best part of “Val” is probably the camcorder footage, which provides new material and a picture of much of his life, but even this is undermined by much of the focus being on present Kilmer, voice box an’ all, as he shows what he’s up to these days. And, even there, one may get the sense that we’re not getting a full or honest picture. This includes his health, as we’re told he feels better than he looks, but then we see him vomiting and feeling faint signing autographs at a comic con. Then, later, he only pretends to be faint. If anything, I suppose I learned that Kilmer has quite a sense of humor.

a chilling experience…

By our beloved ”iceman”, a homemade, selfcarpentered egotrippingly cinematographed film by val kilmer, one of the most spherical and hard to define kind of actors that have ruled the silver screen the latest 40 years. I m not a fan, but i admire his efforts of peculiar acting talents as jim morrison in the movie”the doors”.

I like the way val has chosen to show his sign of life by making a documentary en auto, instead of a bad freeride in a b or c- movie just to let people know ones alive and kinkyness, a very emotional and touching film especially for us living our latter days, its fun to riminisice, with children at the same age, though very dfifferent lifestories, it shows in the end that we are only humans, after all.

So in sickness and in health, its allways hope, so let val stand up as your inspiration to feel free till death takes you apart, the grumpy old man thinks you should see this as a tribute to the work against cancer, and that a hole in the throat may be a great megaphone or parlopone or sound like an old telephone and still worth living with.. val, make a tracheostoma choir cause you still got the voice of understanding……