
A young Metallica roadie named Trip (Dane DeHaan) embarks on an apocalyptic journey through a decimated urban landscape as the band plays to a sold-out arena crowd in this high-concept concert film from director Nimrod Antal (Predators). As the band takes the stage before thousands of screaming fans, Trip is informed that a driver tasked with delivering a crucial item has gotten stranded on the other side of the city. It's his job to recover it, but getting there won't be eas... (Full plot summary below)
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A young Metallica roadie named Trip (Dane DeHaan) embarks on an apocalyptic journey through a decimated urban landscape as the band plays to a sold-out arena crowd in this high-concept concert film from director Nimrod Antal (Predators). As the band takes the stage before thousands of screaming fans, Trip is informed that a driver tasked with delivering a crucial item has gotten stranded on the other side of the city. It's his job to recover it, but getting there won't be easy because as the elaborate concert gets underway, rioters and police begin clashing in the streets. The city is burning, and a mysterious, masked figure on horseback is thriving on the chaos. When Trip incurs the wrath of the ruthless, hammer-wielding psycho and his marauding gang, he realizes that he may not live long enough to complete his mission. Meanwhile, the show must go on, and Metallica thrills the crowd with a thunderous collection of classics that include "Creeping Death", "Ride the Lightning", "Master of Puppets", "Battery" and "Enter Sandman..
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| Detroit NewsAdam GrahamMetallica 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. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanMetallica, 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. |
| St. Paul Pioneer PressChris HewittMetallica's music is not my thing, but the camerawork is so fluid and the musicianship on display is so impressive that they triumph over the dopey, Pink Floyd knock-off, death-and-destruction stagecraft that threatens to overwhelm the songs. |
| ComingSoon.netEdward DouglasThose who dig what Metallica do will certainly appreciate what they and Antal have done to create a very different experience from other concert docs that have come out in recent years. |
| Schmoes KnowMark Ellis"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. |
| Film.comWilliam GossIt's all very appropriately overblown, and director Antal gives the fireworks as much attention as he does each performer. |
| Washington Free BeaconSonny BunchMetallica: Through the Never- three-quarters-concert film, one-quarter-disaster epic-is the most fun I've had at the movies this year. |
| Time OutJoshua RothkopfMaybe because the band enjoyed raves for its daring 2004 psychodrama, Some Kind of Monster, an experimental narrative is shoehorned in, involving a roadie (Dane DeHaan) doing bloody battle in a deserted city. Your heart sinks with every cutaway. |
| JoBlo's Movie EmporiumJimmyOHowever, light the story itself may be, as a music fan - especially a Metallica fan - THROUGH THE NEVER is a rock and roll cinematic trip worth taking. |
| MLive.comJohn SerbaA 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. |