This is a very thorough and detailed documentary about one of metalcore's (at the time) most successful acts. It really ends up being a little too thorough, as it can sometimes chase rabbit trails and focus on events and details that aren't relevant to the overall narrative. As a result, it's a 2 hour movie that could probably be closer to 90 minutes, but this was made to accompany a live CD, so I guess they threw everything and the kitchen sink in for the sake of the fens.
Watching the band grow, find success and have fun in this movie, it's easy to forget that just a few years later, their singer would go on to be convicted for solicitation of murder and the rest of the band would get outed as liars for deceiving their fans into believing they were Christians so they could make money off of religious markets. In that way, I guess this documentary got made at the perfect time to be a time capsule for the best years, not just of AILD, but of metalcore as a whole. Had this been made just 4 years later, this would have been a very different movie - a movie I would like to see, but one that will probably never be made.
