![]() ![]() WCKD doctors are scaring him with virtual reality while they are draining his blood to get that Flare virus cure, because the fear creates antibodies or some nonsense this is a thing that is genuinely in the movie. They’re looking for Minho, who is being experimented on. The same “surprising” stunt with a vehicle is pulled twice, and neither seems possible for people who have grown up in this diminished world to have pulled off. The opening sequence is lifted from an episode of Firefly ( “The Train Job”), there’s a rescue right out of Aliens, and a big moment is borrowed from The Lord of the Rings (the movies, not the book). #Maze runner death cure movie#(It’s like the Right Arm is just Thomas’s backup, not the last chance best hope for humanity or anything.) Everyone loves Thomas! Thomas is so just basically AWESOME that it doesn’t matter if every plot point that isn’t a cliché is in fact a plot hole, right? You will feel like you’ve seen this movie before even while you are watching it for the first (and only) time. Even when people tell him that he is wrong to do a Thing - like rescue a friend because it puts everyone in danger - those people always come around to his way of thinking and show up just in the nick of time to help him. ![]() His crazy ideas that just might work naturally do. He is brooding and wounded but never in any way that makes him less than dreamy, and he’s also always right and noble and upstanding. Its inhabitants walk around wearing ties and high heels and riding buses and checking their smartphones and are they kidding, it’s the end of the world and civilization is dead and how do they have the resources for any of this? How did they have the resources to build the Maze? None of this makes any sense.īut Thomas! He is SO SPECIAL. #Maze runner death cure series#It’s definitely not like the last city in the Divergent movies - which is a completely other dystopian series based on some YA novels, I swear - because that city had visible means of generating electricity and growing food for its inhabitants now that all its outside support systems have collapsed, and this one… doesn’t. Like one you’d recognize today, but with walls to keep the Crank zombies out. The marketing for this movie would like you think that “the legendary Last City a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all,” but LOL, it’s not. This time Thomas (Dylan O’Brien: American Assassin, Deepwater Horizon) is leading a rescue mission to grab their Glade friend Minho (Ki Hong Lee: Wish Upon) from WCKD HQ, which is in the Last City. (Spoiler: Death is not cured.) But it’s not a joke - everyone is very serious. It was a Lonely Planet sort of apocalypse, backpacking into the Mad Max bazaar with your best pals.Īnd now here we have No 3, called The Death Cure, which sounds like a joke, like it’s the opposite of Murder by Death. This was Maze Runner 2, The Scorch Trials. Also there is a resistance group, called the Right Arm. WCKD was experimenting on the kids in the Maze because they are immune to the virus and were hoping to find a cure, which doesn’t even make any sense but OMG Thomas is so cute amirite. There is an evil organization - called WCKD *snort* I mean, there’s your giveaway - running the end of the world. It’s pretty much all the other apocalypses we’ve ever seen onscreen, except maybe Ape Uprising, all in one movie. Everything is really hot and desertified, there are dead cities everywhere, and mostly everyone has turned into Crank zombies because of the Flare virus, as will inevitably happen. Once the escapees are outside they discover that it’s the end of the world, and not just one but many postapocalyptic landscapes lie before them. It was like Lord of the Flies, but nicer, like a Boy Scout jamboree with only a little bit of death. Then Thomas arrives, and he is the Hero, and also handsome and brilliant, so they all escape, like, right away (but not before a Girl arrives for him to fall in love with, because what else are girls for?). Also too, they all have amnesia so they don’t know who they are. Also, the Maze is constantly changing configuration. So, a bunch of kids - okay, just boys - are trapped in a mysterious Glade at the center of a massive Maze, and there are monsters in the Maze that keep them inside. ![]()
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