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.

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......

A fittingly unique documentary for an undeniably unique figure of pop culture and Hollywood, Val is a refreshingly real and honest examination of actor Val Kilmer, whose multi-decade career in the movie industry now finds itself in a sad position following the performers battle with throat cancer that has left Kilmer with difficulty talking and completing everyday tasks.

Utilizing a vast array of homemade video footage Kilmer had shot throughout his career as both a budding actor and one of Hollywood's most in demand leading men, Ting Poo and Leo Scott's documentary is as close as we will ever get to living alongside Kilmer and while the documentary like the man himself is anything but typical, this is both an insightful look at what it means to make it in Hollywood and achieving ones dreams as well as the harsh reality of what a fall from grace looks like as one attempts to master their craft and remain on top of their game.

From short lived highs such as becoming The Batman, starring alongside your childhood acting hero Marlon Brando or being cast as a lead in a play only to be placed behind Kevin Bacon and Sean Penn, Val is a showcase for the fickle industry that is Hollywood and the acting game as well as a showcase for the talented Kilmer who possessed an abundance of on screen charisma and talent but perhaps was never allowed to truly shine the way in which he and his fans would've liked to have seen.

Getting help to deliver this documentary from his son Jack who narrates his fathers written word as we follow his life from a child right through to college student/budding screen actor (making his debut in all-time great comedy Top Secret),Val never once feels like a vanity project for Kilmer who now finds himself in a strange position as a performer unable to do what he loves and does best and while the film may disappoint some looking for a more stereotypical biographical documentary, there's a grace, power and often immense sadness watching Kilmer's past experiences and eye opening current circumstances (such as a Tombstone screening or Comic Con appearance) play out before our eyes.

Final Say -

Combining hours of first hand footage shot by the man himself and walking an honest and truthful line on what Kilmer's current state of being is, Val is an eye opening account of not only a Hollywood star but a man whose dreams alluded him despite getting ever so close to the nirvana of being at the top.

4 Hollywood icons in a hammock out of 5.