Synopsis
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.
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Cast
- Dane DeHaanTrip
- James HetfieldHimself
- Lars UlrichHimself
- Kirk HammettHimself
- Robert TrujilloHimself
- Mackenzie GrayTall Man
- Toby HargraveBig Man
Recommendations
- 83
IndieWire
With "Gravity" around the corner, Metallica Through the Never isn't the year's most groundbreaking achievement, but it's surely the most earth-shattering, and that's enough to make it one helluva comeback story. - 80
Variety
A definitive document for anyone who’s ever hoisted the devil-horn fingers in metalhead solidarity. - 80
Time Out
Maybe 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. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
However mindless and heartless it may be, Through the Never succeeds as pure sense-swamping spectacle. It is a blow-out banquet for Metallica fans, and a blockbuster rock-and-rollercoaster ride for any heavy metal tourists curious to see this music played at major-league level. - 70
Village Voice
This is a movie made for people who mash themselves up against those steel crowd-control barriers at concerts and still don't think they're close enough. - 70
Arizona Republic
It makes for a unique sort of concert film, but also a weaker one. It would have been better if it had dispensed with the frail narrative or else committed to being completely bananas. But as die-hard Metallica fans well know, a little buffoonery is worth weathering for the main attraction. - 67
Austin Chronicle
The Song Remains the Same. There, said it – as will every other rock & roll fanatic considering Metallica: Through the Never. - 67
The A.V. Club
This stereoscopic IMAX vanity project presents the titular rockers not as men, but as living legends, playing the hits at a gigantic venue, for thousands of bellowing diehard fans. In place of introspection, there is only lionizing spectacle; if Monster laid bare the wounded egos of metal’s biggest stars, Never simply re-inflates them.
