Metallica Through the Never Reviews
Top CriticThe problem is that Antal and Metallica took two different movies - a fine live-band document and a supernatural end-of-days romp - and smashed them together to make both of them more boring.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Little White Lies
A bold attempt to pimp a Metallica concert film falls short of initial promise.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Total Film
Watch Some Kind Of Monster instead.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Slate
It's all very handsomely arranged, but even with the concert footage, nothing ever feels live.
Urban Cinefile
Solely for hardcore Metallica fans, a 3D spectacular, immersive thrash metal music experience
This movie is basically "Spinal Tap" minus the jokes.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Despite swooping camera movements and elaborate stagecraft, the film produces detachment rather than immediacy.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
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.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Slant Magazine
The songs still sound great here, but the instruments aren't amplified nearly as much as the nostalgia and vanity of the men who wield them.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Daily Telegraph
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.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Screen It!
If you're big into Metallica, you could very well eat this up. For the casual viewer who might have gotten a kick out of watching them in 'Some Kind of Monster,' this comes off more like 'Some Kind of Nothing.' (Full Parental Review also available)
An old-school music video stretched to feature length.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Boston Herald
For Metallica fans only.
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| Original Score: C plus
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
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
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
The most immersive concert film ever ...
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
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
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
