Metallica- Some Kind Of Monster
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Wed 22 December 2004 // 20:00
METALLICA - SOME KIND OF MONSTER
(Joe Berlinger/Bruce Sinofsky / USA / 2004 / 141 mins / cert 12)
(Sun 19th at 7.30pm / Wed 22nd at 8pm)
It may not have been the best PR move in history when Metallica’s management commissioned a fly-on-the wall documentary, the same week that they invited a self-help guru to try and save the band from utter self-destruction! But the resulting film certainly makes for compelling viewing and proves to rock fans everywhere that Spinal Tap weren't the sole product of a satirist’s fantasy. Much like Rob Reiner’s 1982 film rewritten by Samuel Beckett, the bleak portrait of infighting and disintegration is short on laughs, but high on soul-stripping and redemption, so much so that you don’t really need to be a fan of heavy metal to enjoy it. But it helps.