Trip, a young roadie for Metallica, is sent on an urgent mission during the band's show. But what seems like a simple assignment turns into a surreal adventure.
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.
– Stephen Whitty,
Newark Star-Ledger,
27 Sep 2013
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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.
– Adam Graham,
Detroit News,
27 Sep 2013
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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.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
27 Sep 2013
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It's all very appropriately overblown, and director Antal gives the fireworks as much attention as he does each performer.
– William Goss,
Film.com,
1 Oct 2013
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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.