There’s not too much new informations about Maiden – as a fan I knew most of it – but still a pretty cool movie.

Iron Maiden is incredible. It’s one of my favorite bands of all time, and perhaps the most influential in my life overall, so naturally I had to watch this film. The reality is that the movie falls into a strange category. If this film is aimed at Maiden fans, then honestly it doesn’t really tell or show anything new. During my youth I already read all the stories about the band and watched every video, interview, documentary, and live performance. And on the other hand, people who aren’t fans of the band probably aren’t going to watch this movie in the first place, right? All of this is made worse by what I consider to be the film’s poor production. The sound levels were what bothered me the most. Some sound effects were way louder than the music itself, which is the most important thing and one of the main reasons why we go see a documentary about a band in theaters. The cuts, the pacing, and the moments of the story it chooses to cover — and the way it covers them — are all super strange, combined with animated scenes that sometimes manage to look cool, recreating the iconic album covers in very creative ways at times. You can see the artwork gradually coming together, but you never fully see it until it’s complete and everything clicks. But overall, the animations end up looking pretty cheap, lowering the documentary’s sense of seriousness and causing, at least for me, a certain deep internal cringe. I think I probably should have rated this work 2 stars, or maybe even one and a half. But I can’t help it — Maiden is incredible. It’s a passion I share with very few things in life. The Iron Maiden will always hold an important place in my life, no matter what form it takes.