The movie presents the story of guitarist Jason Newstead, who resigned from the band in 2001, as the stars realized that a new solution must be found to work. At those moments, members of one of the most successful heavy metal teams in history offer group therapy. It seems that this group therapy will be intense for two years to work through long-running labor relationship disputes.
If you're a fan, you will almost certainly be touched by this effort to put an entire dysfunctional band on the couch. And if you're not, well, you're going to giggle.
FromTheBalcony
June 21, 2005
Metallica: Some Kind Of Monster is a masterpiece of rock 'n roll documentary filmmaking, and has set the bar high for those who attempt it in the future.
A mostly terrific documentary about a mostly terrible album. Despite derisory poor-me whining, it captures fragility and fear in Metallica's questioned relevancy, considered disbandment and the closest things to tears they can muster for each other.
Fans of the band will love the revealing footage, especially landmark moments such as bassist auditions (more famous names showed up than the one they picked) and encounters with the ex-Metallica members (Newsted and Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine).
