![]() ![]() The director, Wes Ball, knows how to move his camera around a futuristic medical compound, and the filmmaking brio - especially the sights of Earth’s last city, shot in Cape Town - mitigates the eye rolls prompted by the plot. Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as 'The Flare'. Search Movie Titles Music Artists TV Shows Music Labels Everything else What are you looking for Use the search bar above or click on one of the sections below. Members History Support Tutorials Blog Donate Sponsors Search. Newsletters Why your image might be denied Moderation Time Staff Moderation Statistics A.F. With Dylan OBrien, Ki Hong Lee, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster. Movies Site-Wide Activity Contributors About. ![]() “The Death Cure” opens with a spectacularly staged train rescue indebted to “Mad Max: Fury Road.” It continues with a few too many zombies the return of a character presumed dead a lot of sneering from an Ahab-like security officer (Aidan Gillen) a class revolt that’s essentially window dressing and some of the most homoerotic bromance in a mass release since the “Lord of the Rings” films.īut as silly as they sound, these movies are pretty well made, capable of outsize action and teary intimacy. Maze Runner: The Death Cure: Directed by Wes Ball. While “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” continues the trend toward supersizing, at least it moves. (Amnesiac boys attempted to escape from a giant maze.) The draggier sequel, “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” (2015), added scale by sending the characters on the run. The first film - like all the entries, adapted from a novel by James Dashner - had a pleasing unity of place and action. ![]() Oblivious to occupying the pop-culture equivalent of the bottom half of a double bill, “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” aspires to be a grand male weepie: the “Shawshank Redemption” of “Maze Runner” movies. the teenage dystopian franchise that’s not “The Hunger Games” and the sci-fi opera that’s not “Star Wars,” returns with an almost gleefully overstuffed third installment. ![]()
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