Yeah, Antal hasn't done too many memorable films, but rest assured that he has a new one with this effort, which still has some issues that are hard to forget. Man, this film's pseudo-story outside of the concert is so over-the-top that they may as well have Andrew Detmer of "Chronicle" show up, maybe with the Predator, although I might just be saying that because "Predators" was Nimród Antal's last and, if my memory is correct, only film. Yeah, come to think of it, I reckon I've gotten my fill of Metallica for a while with this film, although I don't think this will be enough for Dane DeHaan, who is so greasy-looking that I just knew he had to be a fan of thrash metal, but might just be doing this film because it was next up in his marathon of being in every other film in 20. You know that they cut this concert down a little bit, but then again, I'm more used to those crazy-long live performances by Bruce Springsteen, or progressive rock bands, or, well, plenty of other upbeat rockers who show that I'm not exactly hardcore enough for thrash metal, let alone Grand Master Thrash by the ironically charming thugs who started it all. Shoot, Metallica didn't even go through the trouble of putting "Through the Never" into the live set featured in this film, although it's not like they had much time to play a whole lot in this live performance, which is apparently so short that they crowbarred in a fictional narrative on the side and still only got this film up to just over 90 minutes. Yes, people, I'm aware that this film is actually named after the song "Through the Never", but come on, like you remember that track off of "The Black Album" sooner than "Enter Sandman". Well, James Hetfield, it would appear that we are finally here in Never-Never Land.
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