Metallica Through the Never (2013)
Average Rating: 6.6/10
Reviews Counted: 59
Fresh: 46 | Rotten: 13
Imaginatively shot and edited, Metallica Through the Never is an electrifying, immersive concert film, though its fictional sequences are slightly less assured.
Average Rating: 6.2/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 15 | Rotten: 5
Imaginatively shot and edited, Metallica Through the Never is an electrifying, immersive concert film, though its fictional sequences are slightly less assured.
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Award-winning filmmaker Nimród Antal (Predators, Kontroll) creates a groundbreaking 3-D motion picture event, Metallica Through the Never. The music-driven feature film combines a bold narrative and spectacular live-performance footage of one of the most popular and influential rock bands in history to produce a bracing, raw andvisceral cinematic experience. Emerging young star Dane DeHaan (The Place Beyond the Pines, Kill Your Darlings, The Amazing Spider-Man 2) portrays Trip, a young roadie
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Dane DeHaan
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James Hetfield
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Kirk Hammett
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Lars Ulrich
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Robert Trujillo
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Jeremy Raymond
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Toby Hargrave
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Dennis Funny
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Matthew Hoglie
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Lindsey Rose Stevens
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Bob Parsons
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Savkovic Nikola
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All Critics (59) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (46) | Rotten (13)
Even as someone who finds Metallica's music silly (ditto the movie's incoherent apocalyptic fantasy sequences), I was floored by much of the visual imagination.
Top CriticIt's all very appropriately overblown, and director Antal gives the fireworks as much attention as he does each performer.
Metallica, those thrash virtuosos of doom, get the grand 3-D opera they deserve: a godless-apocalypse-meets-Vegas spectacle, full of fireballs and electric chairs.
Metallica is as fierce and intense as ever, and the greatest hits set the band performs is a barrage of heavy riff-age that captures the band at its most vital.
In the real world, concerts build to a climax, then return for two or three more; on the screen, alas, "Metallica: Through the Never" just kind of peters out.
Despite swooping camera movements and elaborate stagecraft, the film produces detachment rather than immediacy.
Solely for hardcore Metallica fans, a 3D spectacular, immersive thrash metal music experience
Metallica Through the Never succeeds as an enthralling and visceral concert movie experience but fails to use the medium for a deeper level of artistic appreciation.
"Metallica Through the Never" is an experience best seen and heard in IMAX. It will blow you away.
Awesome.
A bold attempt to pimp a Metallica concert film falls short of initial promise.
An exhilarating and immersive Metallica concert film twinned with a dark, trippy narrative following a roadie named Trip who pops a pill and goes on a mission to find a mysterious package.
This is a lame shaggy-dog narrative, and there's no one to blame but Metallica, who authorised Through the Never and take producing and writing credits.
Watch Some Kind Of Monster instead.
A gigantic spectacle, a virtual-reality experience that is both ridiculous and sublime, sometimes in the same moment.
This is the Metallica that Metallica wants you to remember. Larger than life, over-the-top and supremely powerful...
It's one of the most unexpectedly enjoyable cinematic experiences of the year, even if you couldn't pick a Metallica track out of some hypothetical never-ending playlist.
The result is what every concert movie strives for -- the sense of being there, but with a far better view than you could ever actually afford. And the roadie's tale, while not the most meaningful plot, makes an excellent counterpoint to the music.
This is a band who has done everything there is to do in the world of music; they took a bold risk with this new style directed by Nimrod Antal.
"Through the Never" is a jaw-dropping, eye-popping, ear splitting reminder that the aristocracy that is heavy metal has only one true king: Metallica.
Why make an average concert movie when you can make something as weirdly mesmerizing as Through the Never?
DeHaan's possession of the spotlight might well best the band itself, since Metallica never completely catches fire live.
It's genuinely unsettling, and Metallica's intense, adrenaline-fueled music makes the horror sequences all that much more atmospheric and supercharged.
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| Topic | Last Post | Replies |
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| Black album was the last decent album. | 1 day ago | 48 |
| Not Even Technically 'Music' | 44 minutes ago | 18 |
| This Movie Bombed at The Box Office | 2 hours ago | 10 |
| There is no way I would give any money to metallica | 1 day ago | 6 |
| Black album was the last decent album. | 2 months ago | 0 |
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- Metallica: Through The Never (AU)
First thing first, while this heavy metal concert film shares its title with the name of one of Metallica's albums, the actual song, "Through the Never" does not appear in this film. It does not matter much, because that is not the band's best song and film features an awesome greatest hits collection for any fan of this hard rocking group, as they perform in front of legions of fans on an epic stage. It also happens to have a side story depicting a surreal, apocalyptic adventure. This is certainly different than most rock concert movies, as it does little to shed light on the actual band and serves as more of an extended music video. For the most part, this works. Through the Never will play best for fans, but those seeking a loud concert film with the IMAX 3D seal of approval should be pretty happy with what they get.
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