By Emilio Frenk.
Director: Wes Ball
Cast: Dylan O`Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Dexter Darden, Will Poulter, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosa Salazar, Ki Hong Lee, Barry Pepper, Patricia Clarkson and Aidan Gillen.
Rating: Average.
Director Wes Ball, brings “Maze Runner: The Death Cure”, the third and final installment of “The Maze Runner” franchise and like the previous two films it remained consistent.
The story again focuses in Thomas (Dylan O`Brien) a survivor and runner of the Maze who is in the mission of finding the cure for a deadly disease called “The Flare”.
He will do it with the help of Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), Frypan (Dexter Darden), Brenda (Rosa Salazar) and Jorge (Giancarlo Esposito).
Not only they will try to find the cure but they will also rescue their friend Minho (Ki Hong Lee) who is held prisoner in the WCKD Lab runned by Janson (Aiden Gillen) and Ava Paige (Patricia Clarkson).
Thomas will be in the race against time on performing both tasks before it´s too late, which will mean the end of civilization.
The main reason why I mentioned that “The Maze Runner” trilogy franchise was consistent was due to the fact that they surved their purpose, which is to entertain.
The films, specially this one have incredible action sequences and very good visuals. I could say of all the three the first one is the most solid, but this one is the closest as it can gets.
On the narrative side is where the film had it´s major flaws, The screenplay written by T.S. Nowlin was too long and the dialogue between the characters was to on the nose.
To be completely honest I didn´t care of anyone of the characters of the film and there were moments that the movie became predictable.
Not all is negative in the narrative side; what really worked was the friendship between the characters of Thomas and Newt. I liked their story and the friendship they have and that I think is one of the few things that worked in that side for this movie.
This trilogy has a cast of very talented young actors, specially Dylan O`Brien who I think is really talented but we have not seen him his true potential and I believe he has it. He has a lot of expression and I think is an actor with a bright future ahead of him.
Aidan Gillen plays a very good villain in this film and the character that I do think plays an important asset in the franchise is Jorge played by Giancarlo Esposito.
I still think that another issue of the franchise was the length of the films. I still consider that it could have a had a shorter length and I believe it could have had a better result.
I don´t mind long movies but there has to be a good reason for them and I just didn´t see that here.
“Maze Runner: The Death Cure” is an entertaining film which has a very good climax and again it maintained itself consistently.
For that being said if you are a fan of “The Maze Runner” books you might like and for an entertainment side it complies; on the other hand if you are looking for a different side and see it as a film this might not be the case and you might be disappointed.