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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Verdict: 🥉 COULD SEE After reading Val’s autobiography I Am Your Huckleberry, this was a good companion to revisiting his story. It’s quite unique and also tragic, to be honest, which surely contributes to his deep spiritual nature. The amount of archival footage is unreal. Kilmer has hundreds, maybe even thousands, of hours of his life recorded. Even then, he laments at how he’ll never be able to capture it all.
Bro, I was sobbing when he was like, "Every little boy wants to grow up and be Batman." I was sobbing because I've always wanted to be Batman