Metallica Through the Never Reviews
ScreenRant
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
"Metallica Through the Never" is an experience best seen and heard in IMAX. It will blow you away.
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| Original Score: 3/4
ViewLondon
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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticEven 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.
It's all very appropriately overblown, and director Antal gives the fireworks as much attention as he does each performer.
RogerEbert.com
A gigantic spectacle, a virtual-reality experience that is both ridiculous and sublime, sometimes in the same moment.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Film Threat
This is the Metallica that Metallica wants you to remember. Larger than life, over-the-top and supremely powerful...
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| Original Score: 4/5
The Playlist
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.
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| Original Score: A-
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.
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| Original Score: A-
National Post
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.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Schmoes Know
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.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Schmoes Know
"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.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Television Without Pity
Why make an average concert movie when you can make something as weirdly mesmerizing as Through the Never?
Austin Chronicle
DeHaan's possession of the spotlight might well best the band itself, since Metallica never completely catches fire live.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Common Sense Media
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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| Original Score: 4/5
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.
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| Original Score: B-
We Got This Covered
Metallica: Through The Never is a fan experience like no other, but will only appeal to the die-hard demographic due to a minimalist storyline. Good thing I love my Metallica loud, full of pyrotechnics, and with a little Dane DeHaan...
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| Original Score: 8/10
MLive.com
A rolling tank of a concert film, all audio-visual artillery, an exercise in bombast designed to tickle the denim-clad cockles of the hesher faithful.
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| Original Score: 3/4
PopMatters
Metallica are a lean, mean business machine, still ballsy enough to pull off something as silly as Through the Never but seasoned enough to never let the genre-bending concert film distract from their one true saving grace - their musicianship.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
