10 Best Val Kilmer Movies on Prime Video

Val Kilmer’s recent passing marked the end of an era—not just because we lost a singular actor, but because we lost someone who never quite fit the machine he worked in. He was impossibly charismatic but defiantly strange, leading-man handsome with the soul of a character actor. In an industry that rewards predictability, Kilmer was never easily pinned down. He approached his roles with a blend of technical precision and mercurial energy, whether he was channeling Jim Morrison’s tortured genius or playing a sarcastic genius in a dorm room full of lasers. He was funny without trying to be, devastating without asking for your sympathy. That tension—between persona and performance, exterior and interior—gave him a kind of mythic presence in American cinema. Even when Hollywood didn’t know what to do with him, he made every role feel like a dare.