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Jan 25, 2018 · Such is the sensation of watching “Maze Runner: The Death Cure,” the third and final film in the series based on James Dashner’s novels. It just… won’t … end. For better and for worse, it’s an overwhelming experience. And just when you think it’s over, there’s another coda, and then another.
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Jan 26, 2018 · Maze Runner: The Death Cure may offer closure to fans of the franchise, but for anyone who hasn't already been hooked, this bloated final installment is best left unseen. Read Critics...
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By William Bibbiani
Updated: Jan 23, 2018 10:31 pm
Posted: Jan 17, 2018 9:00 am
The Maze Runner movies have been an enjoyable outlier in the 21st century YA fantasy genre. For two films now they've focused more on action and bizarre mysteries than anything resembling serious melodrama. The heroes of The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials barely have time to catch their breath. Taking a break to pontificate about their feelings is a luxury that none of them could afford… until now.
The third film in the series, The Death Cure, has all the exhilarating action we’ve come to expect from this trilogy but, because it has to wrap everything up, it also gets more personal and dramatic. And that's a problem. The story is ending - heck, maybe even the whole WORLD is ending - and the good guys and bad guys are both wondering about what impact they’ve had and whether or not they’ll ever get closure with the people they love, and none of it works because for two of these films all these characters have been total mysteries. Most of them are amnesiacs, for crying out loud. Amnesia was the perfect excuse to have them run headlong into the next deathtrap without thinking about their personal baggage, but now, too late, they're looking behind them and worried about where their baggage went.
The Death Cure opens with Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), Brenda (Rosa Salazar), Frypan (Dexter Darden) and Jorge (Giancarlo Esposito) in the middle of a death-defying train heist, as they try to rescue their captured friend Minho (Ki Hong Lee) from the clutches of the sinister corporation WCKD. The evil leaders of WCKD are using Minho’s blood to cure the Flare Virus, which has ravaged the whole world and killed billions of people, and yes, it’s kind of hard to explain why they’re the bad guys. They’re trying to save more lives than the heroes ever do in this series. They’re just manipulative jerks about it.
Plotwise, the Maze Runner movies just plain don’t make sense, dang it. But when they’re free-running through giant labyrinths whilst being chased by mammoth Erector Set spiders, the plot doesn’t matter. When they’re careening through the wasteland pursued by zombies, it doesn’t matter either. Now, the plot and the characters are all they’ve got left and yeesh, was that a mistake. It’s a fallacy to say that mysteries are always more interesting than their solutions, but when the solutions are this dumb, maybe the mysteries should have remained the number one priority.
It’s a shame that The Maze Runner movies are going out on their flattest note, but The Death Cure isn't completely off-key. Wes Ball has directed every entry in the franchise and he’s evolved into a very skilled action filmmaker. Complex set-pieces with an incredible number of moving parts are depicted clearly, excitingly, and with visual panache. Many of the action sequences are even intense and clever enough to elicit triumphant, reflexive giggles at how much fun you’re having. It's fair to say that whenever the cast is getting cardiovascular exercise, The Death Cure, like the other Maze Runner movies, is a hoot. It's when they stop and talk to each other that we realize just how boring they can be.
The Death Cure gets stuck with all the loose ends from the other, better Maze Runner movies, and spends too much time wrapping them up and not enough time kicking butt. But the butts that do get kicked get kicked, but hard.
- William Bibbiani
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Jan 26, 2018 · Maze Runner: The Death Cure: Directed by Wes Ball. With Dylan O'Brien, Ki Hong Lee, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as "The Flare".
