From movies that never found enough love to films that got lost in the sands of time, Val Kilmer’s career included a lot of underrated gems.

Val Kilmer had an illustrious career mostly characterised by Batman, but he played some exceptional and diverse roles in some of his underrated films.

Two years later, Kilmer played Lt Tom "Iceman" Kazansky, Tom Cruise's deadly fighter pilot rival in Top Gun. A thrilling patriotic Cold War buddy movie, it cost just $15m (£12m) to make but took more than $350m at the box office.