This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

I recently had the pleasure of stumbling upon a showing of this on TV. I have been a fan of Metallica ever since I was introduced to metal. They will always be on the top of the list for me no matter how many albums they may release with an overly compressed dynamic range.The presentation of this sort-of "Rockumentary" is absolutely something I would expect from MTV. I thoroughly enjoyed all the songs covered by other bands for some of Metallica's most famous songs. Korn did an excellent job with "One". But with usual MTV fashion there is a lot left to be desired. Namely with the audio quality. I almost had to turn it off because the audio quality of the entire show was so bad I just cringed the entire time.Does anyone know if there is a version that I can view that has better than 92Kbps compressed audio quality? I have no problem with paying for a DVD considering the excellent content that it would contain.

When I heard that mtv where going to make an ICON show I thought that they were gonna ruin the name of METALLICA. But i was to be so wrong The documentary was quite interesting getting the band's history from the days with cliff to now. Most of the performances were fantastic . Starting with sum 41 i thought they were gonna blow it you know since there a 'teen' band but they did a great job. Next Avril, she tired really hard and pulled it off despite the guitar wasn't that great. Limp Bizkit gave the best performance on stage however they did keep true to Metallica's version of Saniturium . The winners of the night were definitely koRn . They gave a fantastic performance of One , a classic song. There were some mistakes. Like for example RObert was being honored with the band . The guy hasn't even been with the band for a year . Jason should have been up there. But the biggest mistake of the night was Snoop DOGG ! WHAT THE HELL WAS MTV THINKING LETTING HIM RUIN A CLASSIC SONG

Sum 41 was great, they even did the songs better!!, Metallica was great too, Avril was not really "happy" when she singed, she was like: "Can we just end this crap". Korn was good and Limp Bizkit... Snoop Dogg didn't sing for a very long time but it was good.

I'll start off by saying i am a Metallica fan. When I heard that MTV was going to honor them by giving them the 'ICON' award, I took it as good news....The show itself was somewhat worth the viewing. The covers of the 'Tallica songs we not of the best, but they could have gotten worse. The 5 part documentary that was shown really highlighted Metallica's 20+ year carrer. From the days with Dave Mustaine, to MOP and Cliff's death, to the making of the famous 'Black Album', the doc really did the show justice. Metallica's ending performance was worth the wait alone, as they did a meldely of 'Hit the Lights', 'Creeping Death', 'Blackened', 'Enter Sandman', and 'Battery'. After that, James proclams "We may be ICONs, but we're not done yet." Then they kick into 'Frantic' from their new upcoming album 'St. Anger'Overall, MTV ICON: Metallica was a decent show, but with all the nu-metal artists and rappers ruining their masterpiece songs, it's not the best show MTV has ever done.3.5/5