The final chapter in “The Maze Runner” trilogy is here and….does anybody care? Delayed due to a near fatal on-set accident involving the film’s star Dylan O’Brien, “The Maze Runner: The Death Cure” now arrives in cinemas in the usually dry month of January. Granted, the series has managed to find an audience, but are they still invested?
Co-starring Rosa Salazar, Kaya Scodelario, Ki Hong Lee, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Patricia Clarkson, Giancarlo Esposito, and Barry Pepper, I can honestly tell you I don’t know very much about this franchise. But it does involve mazes, so I presume our character will find their way out of the last big one, and discover freedom. Or something. Here’s the official synopsis:
In the epic finale to the Maze Runner saga, Thomas leads his group of escaped Gladers on their final and most dangerous mission yet. To save their friends, they must break into the legendary Last City, a WCKD-controlled labyrinth that may turn out to be the deadliest maze of all. Anyone who makes it out alive will get answers to the questions the Gladers have been asking since they first arrived in the maze.
“It’s a heist movie this time,” director Wes Ball said. “It picks up six months after the last movie, where we started in the desert, and then we come into the world of WCKD, which is a city: The Last City.”
“The Maze Runner: The Death Cure” opens on January 26, 2018.