Depending on who you ask, Nickelback are either the biggest punchline in rock, or one of the genre's most criminally misjudged bands. Over 20 years on from bursting into the big leagues with Silver Side Up and inescapable mega-single How You Remind Me, new documentary Nickelback: Hate To Love explores not only how the band became so massive, but why there was so much vitriol pointed towards them in the first place.
But with direct involvement and endorsement from Nickelback themselves, there's no denying that Hate To Love is fluffy at best when it comes to assessing the merits of the band's output. But equally, the documentary isn't necessarily designed to lay out an argument against the vitriol so much as offer an overview of their story that might just challenge a few preconceived notions.
