Adaptation Distillation: The plot of the third book is distilled to incorporate elements of the previous installment, The Scorch Trials.Conversely, Lawrence is now the leader of a different faction that not only intends to destroy WCKD (like the Right Arm on the books) but also the entire city, which is established to be the last remaining bastion of civilization left in the world. Vince truly cares about the kids as well, and refuses to risk any of them on Thomas's endeavor. Adaptational Heroism: Vince and the Right Arm they truly intend to save the Immunes and take them far away from WKCD.In the film? Janson outright betrays and murders Ava Paige and tries to hijack the cure in Thomas' blood to play pick-and-choose with who lives and who dies to create a future of his own design. While in the books, he was a ruthless and undeniably evil Mad Scientist, he was still a Well-Intentioned Extremist who's overall goals aligned with WCKD's. Assistant Director Janson is hit with this as well.Even so, getting the final curtainĬall on a such film trend may be a dubious honor. Release was delayed so long, but perhaps that wait will help people like meįorget the morass of other similar films. It’s unfortunate that the Maze Runner: The Death Cure’s (that didn’t maim the actors) are intense and enjoyable at times. Than you’d see in other science fiction tales.
Just the right time, giving the movie a little less credibility, but no more There are plenty of convenient story mechanisms that assist our heroes at Performances keep the bloated story moving along enough to pique your interest,Įven if you can see the obvious conclusion coming well before the end credits That the other films in the Maze Runner series. It isn’t the worst YA-novel film adaptation of the genre, and certainly better The good news for Maze Runner: The Death Cure is that Setting up a large battle in a race against time. Teresa works on the vaccine, Janson closes in and Lawrence’s army attacks, Where it is discovered that Thomas’ blood carries the cure for the virus.
ThomasĪnd his group capture Teresa and force her to get them inside the WCKD lab, Seen the error of his ways and vows to help his former rivals in their quest. (Will Poulter), who did not die as they thought in the first film. They also encounter their old maze antagonist Gally Resistance fighters outside the city, led by Lawrence (Walter Goggins) who is plotting They also discover another group of infected When they get there, they discover Teresa inside the WCKD lab, still trying toĬome up with a cure for the virus. Infiltrate the city, rescue Minho and escape with the resistance on a ship. Thomas, Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), Frypan (Dexterĭarden), Jorge (Giancarlo Esposito) and Brenda (Rosa Salazar) set out to Their efforts are unsuccessful,īut they discover the path to the city, which is surrounded by a huge wall to Train headed to a big city controlled by WCKD. The resistance group, led by Vince (Barry Pepper) sets out to rescue him from a After WCKD’s brutal securityĬhief Janson (Aidan Gillen) took Thomas’ pal Minho (Ki Hong Lee) into custody, Trials, Thomas and his pals had just joined a WCKD resistance group in theĭesert, only to be betrayed by Teresa (Kaya Scoledario), Thomas’ girlfriend andĪ WCKD mole sent into the maze to find a cure. Last-remaining corporate authority in the dystopian future. HeĪnd other maze runners have previously escaped from the clutches of WCKD, the With an immunity to a world-ending virus caused by some sort of solar flare. Represent the final punctuation mark on a film movement that suffered fromĪll-too-familiar themes, and certain oversaturation.Ī fully-recovered O’Brien returns as Thomas, a young man So, Maze Runner: The Death Cure may very well
It got so bad for the Divergent series that the studios Series and peaked with the Hunger Games is now tepid at best, if notĭead altogether.
With a gap of two yearsīetween the middle and final films, interest has waned – not only in The Maze Runner,īut in YA-novel-based films as a whole. O’Brien suffered a serious on-set injury in 2016). Runner star Dylan O’Brien (production on the third installment halted after The trend might have ended sooner if not for an unfortunate head wound suffered by the Maze Worn-out trend as we get the finale to James Dashner’s Maze Runner novel series. Trilogies? Please? Alright, one more to put the nail in the coffin of this
Okay, are we done with all the young adult novel-based film Poulter, Rosa Salazar, Patricia Clarkson. Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dexter Darden, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito,Īidan Gillen, Walton Goggins, Ki Hong Lee, Jacob Lofland, Barry Pepper, Will Violence and action, language, and some thematic elements. Rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi