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A large slab of Maze Runner: The Death Cure, revolves around a series of daring rescues of the character Min-ho (Ki Hong Lee) who, when he is eventually found, has precisely nothing to contribute to the film he is the YA McGuffin personified.
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Scorch Trial characters Giancarlo Esposito and Rosa Salazar (good) also return. Original star Dylan O’Brien leads, with Brit actor Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Newt.
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Here, they about-turn and launch an all-out assault on the corporation’s big-city HQ, highly fortified to keep out the Cranks. Shot in South Africa, Maze Runner: The Death Cure reunites its cast of original actors, who have left their back-story in the Maze long behind for life on the run from WCKD. The first Maze Runner notched $348.3m in worldwide theatrical gross the second took $312.3m a year later expect further diminished returns as the franchise puts itself, and viewers, to sleep. Patricia Clarkson and Aidan Gillen provide half-hearted evil as the faces of the corporation, although this won’t be high on either actor’s resume. Patricia Clarkson and Aidan Gillen provide half-hearted evil as the faces of the corporation, although this won’t be high on either actor’s resume.ĭirected, like the first two films, by Wes Ball for 20 th Century Fox, Maze Runner: The Death Cure spends a paralysing 142 minutes tracking a gang of chemistry-free “teens” (O’Brien is 26 years-old) as they save each other from a sinister corporation called WCKD (not an alcopop, although that’s a thought) and hordes of zombies they call Cranks. As with the Divergent series, The Hunger Games, and the mother of them all, Twilight, they tend to play to diminishing returns as the tween audience grows out of a desire to watch yearning young actors tell each other “I’m not leaving without you!” before aspiring to a chaste kiss. Delayed after lead actor Dylan O’Brien was injured during shooting, Maze Runner: The Death Cure arrives in a Star Wars-led commercial galaxy where Young Adult dystopia franchises seem so 2012.
That may not mean a lot to most people, but it’s a quarter of a lifetime for the target audience. Over three years lie between the release of Maze Runner in September 2014, the sequel Scorch Trials a year later, and the final instalment in the trilogy, Maze Runner: The Death Cure, which opens globally through Fox from the end of January 2018.