Metallica Through the Never
- Mackenzie Gray: Tour Manager
- Kyle Thomson: Rider
- James Hetfield ( guitar, vocals)
- Lars Ulrich (drums)
- Kirk Hammett: electric guitar, backing vocals
- Robert Trujillo: Bass guitar, backing vocals
Metallica Through the Never is an American concert film from the year 2013. Directed by Nimrod Antal. The film was shot in the IMAX 3D format, and combines concert footage of the American heavy metal band Metallica with a background story. The IMAX 3D version was launched on September 27, 2013, the 3D version on October 3, 2013., The theatrical version of the film played worldwide around 21.2 million U.S. dollars. End of January 2014 was the release on DVD and Blu -ray on September 20, 2013, the soundtrack album was released as a double CD.
Action
TripAdvisor has worked as a roadie for the American heavy metal band Metallica. When he arrives at the stadium where the concert is taking place, he meets the individual band members. For this purpose, partly surreal scenes are used, as later in the plot. Shortly after the beginning of the performance in the sold-out stadium tour manager sends him to the city where he is to pick up the important charge of a broken-down trucks. As of now, the film repeatedly switches between the experiences of my trip and the concurrent Metallica concert. Because it focuses on the city map, overlooks trip through a red light and remains a screeching halt with his van stand on the crossroads where it rams another vehicle. TripAdvisor yells at the driver, it flees in horror and trip continues his search on foot. He gets into a street battle between rioters and police. He notices a masked rider who hanged a rebel with a rope to a lamppost. TripAdvisor flee from this scene and finally finds the truck, on the loading area, the charge is important, namely a bag with unknown contents. On his way back to the concert hall, he is haunted by the masked rider and an angry mob and finally asked. After a struggle to trip finds himself on the roof of a house where he confronts the masked rider alone. He manages to defeat him and return the bag. When he enters the stadium, this is deserted. TripAdvisor sits on the bleachers and the musicians of Metallica playing the instrumental Orion. In the final scene is shown again the bag, the contents of which remains a mystery.
Background
As early as 1997, the idea was born to a Metallica movie and there were initial discussions between Lars Ulrich and IMAX. By 2010, the idea was taken up again, according to Lars Ulrich of the claim of the band, was to make a feature film, set against the backdrop of a Metallica concert with a real audience. This was followed by discussions with various directors and the choice fell on Nimrod Antal, the figure of the roadies trip and the other characters developed based on the ideas of the band and a script was written. Especially for the live recordings, a 360 -degree stage was made, which is 61 meters long and 18 meters wide. This came at performances of Metallica in the Canadian cities of Edmonton and Vancouver used. With 24 cameras so a total of 60 hours of material were taken at several shows, which form the basis for the live sequences of the film. The selection of the pieces shown represents the next most successful songs the band also the favorite songs of the fans. The production of the film cost about 32 million U.S. dollars.
Reception
The reviews of the film were mixed. Criticism was especially the frame story, while the live scenes experienced mostly positive response. The magazine Cinema praises the " parts of the spectacular [n ] concert footage in 3D", the overall story, however, is "an abstruse ( fantasy ) adventure ... at the level of useful free music videos ". On the other hand writes the site kino.de that the overall story the film " an additional emotional component " confer and concludes:
" A haunting, well-styled heavy metal event on the big screen, with the most popular Metallica songs and tangible near- musicians. "
The music magazine Rock Hard praised the concert portion, but referred to the movie content as superfluous. The author complains that the narrative will not let merge with concert clips and that there was no reasonable resolution of the story:
"As a METALLICA fan, you should have seen the strip. But ... it is something stunned that the band has invested so much time and money into a half-baked idea ... "
Soundtrack
The soundtrack album Through the Never appeared on 20 September 2013. The track list is consistent with the order of the songs played live match.