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.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.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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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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Scanning the scene in the city tonight
Whilst METALLICA are playing a show somewhere, a young roadie is sent across the city to fetch a bag. Admittedly, this story-line doesn't sound like serious competition for 'The Wall' or 'Quadrophenia' - because it isn't. But if we only consider 'Through the Never' as a concert movie with a bit of cool rock video decoration, it is actually fun and extremely good looking. However, when the band members praise the challenge of a narrative concept in the making-of, I wonder if they read all 3 pages of the script, which includes scenes like 'guy puts himself on fire to win a fight' (no he doesn't), 'guy looks into bag and doesn't tell us what he finds inside' (boo!) and 'hammer bloke hangs people for fun' (which probably has some intricate symbolism woven into it, but hidden so well that nobody will ever find out).
The movie has its best moments not with the larger than life bits, but with the little touches, for example when a microphone fails in 'Ride the Lightning' and James angrily pushes it away - this is a well-staged moment to show the band not as flawless super-heroes, but normal human beings. The collapsing statue and the (Tesla coil) lightnings make the performance visually memorable, but this probably would have worked just as well without the, uh, 'narrative concept'. I voted 8/10 which is a compromise between 10 for the visual qualities, 9 for the music and 4 for the 'story'.
The movie has its best moments not with the larger than life bits, but with the little touches, for example when a microphone fails in 'Ride the Lightning' and James angrily pushes it away - this is a well-staged moment to show the band not as flawless super-heroes, but normal human beings. The collapsing statue and the (Tesla coil) lightnings make the performance visually memorable, but this probably would have worked just as well without the, uh, 'narrative concept'. I voted 8/10 which is a compromise between 10 for the visual qualities, 9 for the music and 4 for the 'story'.
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- unbrokenmetal
- Jul 15, 2016
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