Metallica Through the Never Reviews
Eugene B
Super Reviewer
September 8, 2013
Suspenseful and striking through every direction and chord struck. Though its fictional sequences are somewhat loose, it was a rare blend of cinema and concert that executes and is exciting. A systematic thriller that's fitting for an IMAX screen and sound, Nimród Antal's Metallica: Through the Never is aggressive, imaginative and well-formulated. 4.5/5
September 30, 2013
You don't really need to know anything about singer/guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammet and bassist Robert Trujillo, but if you want to you could check out their 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster, their deep chronicle of band therapy. Through The Never, shot with multiple cameras and eye-popping stage sets by Hungarian filmmaker Nimrod Antal (Kontroll) over five nights in Vancouver and Edmonton, Canada during last year's World Magnetic Tour, needs no explanation. It's that good.
What does merit some explaining is the short film that accompanies it starring Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) as Trip, a roadie tasked with collecting a mysterious bag as the concert goes on. It's a surreal journey that sees him enter a world of zombie restlessness, cop cars exploding and even a masked horseman, all within a narrative thread that doesn't always hold. It's a bit distracting but no less hypnotic. You could do worse.
Metallica lovers will of course thrill to the new concert film Through The Never, now showing in 3-D and IMAX. But will anyone else? I say yes, since Through The Never is a new rock classic.
You don't really need to know anything about singer/guitarist James Hetfield, drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammet and bassist Robert Trujillo, but if you want to you could check out their 2004 documentary Some Kind of Monster, their deep chronicle of band therapy. Through The Never, shot with multiple cameras and eye-popping stage sets by Hungarian filmmaker Nimrod Antal (Kontroll) over five nights in Vancouver and Edmonton, Canada during last year's World Magnetic Tour, needs no explanation. It's that good.
What does merit some explaining is the short film that accompanies it starring Dane DeHaan (Chronicle) as Trip, a roadie tasked with collecting a mysterious bag as the concert goes on. It's a surreal journey that sees him enter a world of zombie restlessness, cop cars exploding and even a masked horseman, all within a narrative thread that doesn't always hold. It's a bit distracting but no less hypnotic. You could do worse.
September 27, 2013
Awesomeeeee movie. Kept me headbanging the whole way. I didn't really understand the point of the side story, but it was pretty cool. It was just an epic concert film.
October 6, 2013
Through The Never é uma aventura em diversos aspectos, tanto técnicos, quanto morais e visuais, mas acima de tudo, é um filme de sorte, porque a sorte de todos, é de ser um filme sobre uma banda realmente impressionantemente arrepiante.
Nimród Antal visivelmente abraça um projeto com muito carisma e gana de sucesso. O problema, é que sua aventura de roteirização e "inventividade" não casam em momento algum.
Through The Never é uma aventura em diversos aspectos, tanto técnicos, quanto morais e visuais, mas acima de tudo, é um filme de sorte, porque a sorte de todos, é de ser um filme sobre uma banda realmente impressionantemente arrepiante.
October 6, 2013
Kurze und verrückte Story. Man kann es als überlanges Musikvideo vorstellen. Aber Metallica rockt wie Sau. \m/.
October 6, 2013
THE GOOD: Intense and exhilarating overall concert, awesome music, great songs, good fast pace.
THE BAD: THE ENDING! It was horrible... I won't spoil anything, but it literally just ended in the middle of a scene. There was almost nothing good about it!
THE UGLY: Metallica: Through The Never has one of the worst stories I've ever seen, Absolutely nothing is explained at all, and it makes no sense. It felt like a stupid music video. If you do see this movie, see it for the exhilarating concert!
OVERALL: Metallica: Through The Never is an awesome concert movie with excellent music and an awful story-line. See it if you are a Metallica fan!
RATING: 7/10
I am a huge Metallica fan. I love all of their songs, and was really looking foreword to the movie! With the One Direction movie coming out, I was wondering when a metal concert movie would be made. Well, one was made, and this was it.
THE GOOD: Intense and exhilarating overall concert, awesome music, great songs, good fast pace.
THE BAD: THE ENDING! It was horrible... I won't spoil anything, but it literally just ended in the middle of a scene. There was almost nothing good about it!
THE UGLY: Metallica: Through The Never has one of the worst stories I've ever seen, Absolutely nothing is explained at all, and it makes no sense. It felt like a stupid music video. If you do see this movie, see it for the exhilarating concert!
OVERALL: Metallica: Through The Never is an awesome concert movie with excellent music and an awful story-line. See it if you are a Metallica fan!
RATING: 7/10
October 5, 2013
To start off, I am not a Metallica fan. But I saw the preview during another IMAX movie, and was intrigued. I thought that the preview alone was worth checking it out. By the end of the movie, my ears were ringing from the IMAX sound, and I was amazed. I thought that the concert was unlike any I concert I have ever seen. The 3D experience I thought worked perfectly. But what I was really hoping for was there to be more of the short story because that was what the preview focused on. Unlike most comments I have read, I thought the movie portion was very entertaining. I believe that this could be an idea that could really turn into something huge for bands of all genres. I hope there are many more films like this because it was much better than most of the garbage coming out of Hollywood these days.
September 29, 2013
I work in the IMAX 3D industry and see them all, Picturehouse made a horrible mistake in the release schedule as Gravity will take all the IMAX screens this week (stupid move), this will doom this picture to bomb status as it competes with the Heavy Metal Monster "Machete Kills" next week. Why would someone Pay $13 to see a low budget concert flick when they can see a $250 Million action blockbuster for the same price? I saw Gravity and it is 100X the value.
Every song features the same jib and steadicam moves with some lame stage prop exploding during the song, I don't really need to see Jame's acne scars close up on a 50' screen in 3D for 110 minutes. There is really nothing interesting to latch onto as far as a plot or visual arc, it just kind of wears you down after a while and you rejoice when the ending credits offer you some hope of escape. The most boring IMAX film of all time.
I work in the IMAX 3D industry and see them all, Picturehouse made a horrible mistake in the release schedule as Gravity will take all the IMAX screens this week (stupid move), this will doom this picture to bomb status as it competes with the Heavy Metal Monster "Machete Kills" next week. Why would someone Pay $13 to see a low budget concert flick when they can see a $250 Million action blockbuster for the same price? I saw Gravity and it is 100X the value.
October 5, 2013
I am huge Metallica fans forever in my brother Gavin heart that's for Enter Sandman Landdddda?!!!!
October 4, 2013
Amazing experience. Took my son and shelled out the extra $ for IMAX 3d and think I may have just changed/raised the moviegoing experience bar forever. Felt like a ride you were on, not a movie you were watching. Already want to see it again.
October 4, 2013
A Fantastic Concert Film that really makes you feel like you are actually at a Metallica Concert. Well shot and Amazing Sound! The side story is pretty odd but it will keep you intrigued as to what the heck is going on with it.
October 4, 2013
I would like to express my point of view and, beyond all doubt, my feelings about Metallica's new challenge.
To start with, I've been a fancier since their Load-time. I only liked the music, the lyrics, the guitar experiments and never paid attention to any other sides of their out-of-music existence. Then there was a break for some years in my music-following life. To my own surprise, The Magnetic Tour brought me back to Metallica, in particular, Moscow Magnetic. I felt that I had no right to miss this event, and I did not! To cut the story short, it was incredible. After that I found out I let slip a lot of things, which happened to the band in those years. Thus, I began with documentaries and concert videos and understood that I fell totally in love with them again, but deeper, much deeper.
To add more, not so long ago I was watching their set in Rio, as my six-year-old son came up to me and asked, who these guys, playing the guitars so cool, were. Then he asked me if he could go to their concert alone as soon as he is grown-up. I was laughing and at the same time almost crying, since I'm not sure it will happen, and I would love to it could.
Moving back to the film, when there appeared the information about Metallica's new experiment in the filming area, I became absolutely confident that I'll see it despite any critics and opinions. One day I was watching a trailer and my son asked me, when I was going to take him to the cinema. There was no even doubt he wanted to see it. This is how we ended up there today and watched it to the final chord and caption. I was not able to say a word as I felt like I was there, in the film, taking part, ready to sing along and shout as loud as possible. At the end of the movie my son started clapping his hands and saying that it was well done by James (NB.: Hetfield is someone like Spider-man or Iron-man for my child nowadays).
Of course, if you are a great cinema-goer and expert, I cannot affirm that you will like Metallica: Through the Never as a great action or something.
On the one hand, many people who are not fans might even grumble something like that they did not get anything or what after all was in the bag. By the way, I think there was Cliff's ashes or (it may sound more romantic) Cliff's soul.
On the other hand, I am very pleased that the film is considered to be for the fans, not only for getting some kind of profit (though this point is quite controversial, profit must be received from everything). For me personally Metallica: Through the Never is an amazing present. 3D gig with songs visualizations during the action - what could be better?!
To sum up, I suppose, the film is highly-recommended to be seen to everyone. And if you, in addition, are a connoisseur of Metallica's works, you must see it.
Metallica: the Never has been overthrown.
I would like to express my point of view and, beyond all doubt, my feelings about Metallica's new challenge.
To start with, I've been a fancier since their Load-time. I only liked the music, the lyrics, the guitar experiments and never paid attention to any other sides of their out-of-music existence. Then there was a break for some years in my music-following life. To my own surprise, The Magnetic Tour brought me back to Metallica, in particular, Moscow Magnetic. I felt that I had no right to miss this event, and I did not! To cut the story short, it was incredible. After that I found out I let slip a lot of things, which happened to the band in those years. Thus, I began with documentaries and concert videos and understood that I fell totally in love with them again, but deeper, much deeper.
To add more, not so long ago I was watching their set in Rio, as my six-year-old son came up to me and asked, who these guys, playing the guitars so cool, were. Then he asked me if he could go to their concert alone as soon as he is grown-up. I was laughing and at the same time almost crying, since I'm not sure it will happen, and I would love to it could.
Moving back to the film, when there appeared the information about Metallica's new experiment in the filming area, I became absolutely confident that I'll see it despite any critics and opinions. One day I was watching a trailer and my son asked me, when I was going to take him to the cinema. There was no even doubt he wanted to see it. This is how we ended up there today and watched it to the final chord and caption. I was not able to say a word as I felt like I was there, in the film, taking part, ready to sing along and shout as loud as possible. At the end of the movie my son started clapping his hands and saying that it was well done by James (NB.: Hetfield is someone like Spider-man or Iron-man for my child nowadays).
Of course, if you are a great cinema-goer and expert, I cannot affirm that you will like Metallica: Through the Never as a great action or something.
On the one hand, many people who are not fans might even grumble something like that they did not get anything or what after all was in the bag. By the way, I think there was Cliff's ashes or (it may sound more romantic) Cliff's soul.
On the other hand, I am very pleased that the film is considered to be for the fans, not only for getting some kind of profit (though this point is quite controversial, profit must be received from everything). For me personally Metallica: Through the Never is an amazing present. 3D gig with songs visualizations during the action - what could be better?!
To sum up, I suppose, the film is highly-recommended to be seen to everyone. And if you, in addition, are a connoisseur of Metallica's works, you must see it.
October 4, 2013
I wasn't really sure what to expect going into this besides a Metallica concert in IMAX (enough of a sell on it's own). What I ended up getting was what I liked to think of as Metallica: The Ride. Having been to half a dozen Metallica concerts in the last few years, I can say this movie is as close to the real thing as possible. I think the IMAX speakers are louder than an actual Metallica concert. The thing I really loved, though, is how the narrative aspect of the movie, while lacking in parts, helped capture the overall "feel" of Metallica. It was more than just a music video. It took the sound, intensity, and themes of the band's music and built a stylized visual to accompany and elevate it. The same could be said for the concert footage itself. They definitely went all out on the stage set up and all the bells and whistles, and I was actually surprised to see how well it played off the story running parallel to the concert. If I had any complaints, it would be that the concert and the film ended abruptly, and the actual story didn't really follow any kind of logical structure. But again, if I'm looking at this as Metallica: The Ride, it delivers.
September 28, 2013
For the most part, this movie/concert is awesome!!!!!! If you have the chance to spend a few extra bucks and see this in IMAX, do it! Basically, though, this film bounces back and forth between the Metallica concert and this young dude played by Dane DeHaan and all the situations he finds himself in as he ventures through the city to run an errand for one of the band's technicians. The best parts of the movie are when Metallica is on screen. I don't care what flavor of Metallica fan you are; if you like the old, the new, or all of Metallica, it doesn't matter, you NEED TO SEE this absolutely beautifully shot, in your face, balls to the wall live performance and all the great stage effects that go with it (especially in IMAX, this show is so immersive and so loud, it's awesome!). However, despite the good things, there were two problems I have with this film: 1) it has no ending, no real conclusion to wrap things up, and 2) there's one particular item that's built up consistently throughout the entire movie, but, spoilers, it's never revealed (without even giving a hint). If you see the movie, you'll see what I mean. Not giving any clues as to what the item could be is a real letdown because then, the item has no real purpose in the film and becomes a waste of time. I can't say much more without giving anything away except that this item has to do with a bag. All in all, seeing Metallica on the big screen in such a well-shot film and performing this awesome of a show is something every flavor of Metallica fan will want to see......trust me.
As James Hetfield would say: "Through the NEVAAHHHH!!" lol
For the most part, this movie/concert is awesome!!!!!! If you have the chance to spend a few extra bucks and see this in IMAX, do it! Basically, though, this film bounces back and forth between the Metallica concert and this young dude played by Dane DeHaan and all the situations he finds himself in as he ventures through the city to run an errand for one of the band's technicians. The best parts of the movie are when Metallica is on screen. I don't care what flavor of Metallica fan you are; if you like the old, the new, or all of Metallica, it doesn't matter, you NEED TO SEE this absolutely beautifully shot, in your face, balls to the wall live performance and all the great stage effects that go with it (especially in IMAX, this show is so immersive and so loud, it's awesome!). However, despite the good things, there were two problems I have with this film: 1) it has no ending, no real conclusion to wrap things up, and 2) there's one particular item that's built up consistently throughout the entire movie, but, spoilers, it's never revealed (without even giving a hint). If you see the movie, you'll see what I mean. Not giving any clues as to what the item could be is a real letdown because then, the item has no real purpose in the film and becomes a waste of time. I can't say much more without giving anything away except that this item has to do with a bag. All in all, seeing Metallica on the big screen in such a well-shot film and performing this awesome of a show is something every flavor of Metallica fan will want to see......trust me.
