This is a great looking presentation in high definition from the usually reliable folks at Fox, (some other online references state that it was a 2K DI). Digitally captured with Arri Alexa XT cameras, I'm assuming this was finished at a 2K DI, though the IMDb doesn't list any information Maze Runner: The Death Cure is presented on Blu-ray courtesy of 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment with an AVC encoded 1080p transfer Than the Flare afflicting this last installment: boredom. The film has a lot of visual allure, and some astounding (if again interstitial) stunts, but there's a more devastating virus The film starts by firing on all cylinders (literally,Ĭonsidering the cars involved), offering the sort of popcorn munching thrills that many want from even their overheated science fiction enterprises.īut then there's a lot of needless exposition which points in one necessary direction, with a surprisingly intermittent series of set pieces to The biggest thing confronting Maze Runner: The Death Cure is its languid pacing. Interchangeable with other officious rulers in those two other YA franchises, struggling to find anything new to bring to what is a type rather than Ava Paige (Patricia Clarkson) is similarly Scodelario), whose real motives vis a vis Thomas and a hoped for serum may or may not be duplicitous. Whole pandemic element of The Maze Runner also seems tired and overused, with supposed angst filled moments involving Teresa (Kaya Games or Divergent, but it's there that Thomas and his cohorts need to infiltrate, ostensibly to rescue Minho (Ki Hong Lee). The WCKD headquarters are in fact pretty much interchangeable with other high tech centers of nefarious activities in either The Hunger But the whole subtext of "specially gifted" young kids "fighting the power" may simply feel too familiar at this point,Įven to some fans of this particular iteration of the basic idea. That's perhaps even more obvious in this third Maze Runner film with its central conceit of a very Capital City-esque metropolis Tethers to two other YA franchises that make use of at least some of the same kinds of Dystopian plot conceits, The Hunger Games: Complete 4-Film CollectionĬollection. If there's at least some hints of Mad Max running (and/or driving) rampant throughout this installment, there are also perhaps Visual allure, but which probably takes too long to get to its emotional element. Want the story to come to its conclusion, but it's a fairly overstuffed entry (almost two and a half hours) that has a lot of typical science fiction This is a wrap up that will probably inescapably appeal to fans who Some fans' appetites, even though the film did pretty huge box office globally. Heart grow fonder, but in this case the long gestation period between the second and third Maze Runner films may have actually whetted Unfortunately, that's not the end of the derivative qualities that afflict this third film. AsĮxciting as this opening sequence undeniably is, it kind of unavoidably smacks of the Mad Max franchise, what with several armor plated vehicles tooling around arid wastelands that once were home to Initially slated for February 2017), but a usable take was utilized for the film, perhaps as part of a psychological or emotional "cure" for O'Brien. This sequence that O'Brien reportedly suffered a severe head injury that closed down filming for untold months (the original release date was Pepper) approach the train in a kind of dune buggy, actually driving up onto the tracks and hooking their vehicle onto the back car. On The Maze Runner's sometimes obtuse verbiage, don't worry, nothing is that hard to understand). O'Brien) is part of a rescue operation attempting to break into a fast moving train that has a coterie of captive Gladers (if you're not up to speed Injury ended up in the final film, in an opening vignette that should have most adrenaline junkies feeling adequately "topped off". How O'Brien was so seriously injured, since (according to several online articles) a version of the sequence that actually resulted in the Its release was delayed rather lengthily due to injuries suffered by star Dylan O'Brien during filming. Maze Runner: The Death Cure might have reasonably been more accurately titled Maze Runner: The Severe Injury Cure, since Reviewed by Jeffrey Kauffman, April 24, 2018 Maze Runner: The Death Cure Blu-ray Review
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