WHERE TO WATCH THE MAZE RUNNER PLUS
WHERE TO WATCH THE MAZE RUNNER SERIES

WHERE TO WATCH THE MAZE RUNNER PLUS

On the plus side, that means itвЂ™s easier to sympathise with Teresa (the excellent Kaya Scodelario), who betrayed our gang last time around to work with the people trying to save the planet.

Add in the central premise that ThomasвЂ™ blood contains the key to immunity and the second film becomes unnecessary too. He, we learn, is being subjected to VR simulations of monsters trying to kill him вЂ“ a relatively harmless lab-based scenario that renders the entire first film rather pointless in retrospect.

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The Death Cure rescues the series somewhat, less because of its quality writing and more because its very role as the concluding part of a trilogy means that it must have an end вЂ“ an immovable barrier against which our forces can fight.ДЄnd so we rejoin Thomas (Dylan OвЂ™Brien) as he, Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and Brenda (Rosa Salazar) race to infiltrate WCKD headquarters to release their kidnapped friend, Minho (Ki Hong Lee).

It was far-fetched, absurd and borderline nonsensical, but the rigid structure and claustrophobic atmosphere of the maze itself was enough to result in a gripping, fast-paced novelty that was genuinely creepy and impressively acted.ДЄll that promise was undone, though, by a directionless sequel, which left our rebellious teens running every which way they could to avoid infected zombies and the dodgy henchmen of the sinister science organisation WCKD вЂ“ you can tell a company is bad when their name is one letter away from a lucrative sponsorship deal with an alcoholic beverage. That maze, you may not recall, was an elaborate science experiment, designed to terrify young kids so that their bodies would secrete a chemical that could used as an antidote to a virus that had wiped out most of the population. While The Hunger Games will live on thanks to Jennifer LawrenceвЂ™s sizzling central turn and its pertinent political themes, The Maze Runner is already hard to remember, with its central plot involving a maze and, erm, some running. The very mention of those series highlights just how outdated the idea of young adult dystopias has become in the modern cultural landscape. The Maze Runner: an ambitious young adult franchise destined to go down in cinema history as that trilogy that was better than Divergent but not as good as The Hunger Games.

Watch Maze Runner: The Death Cure online in the UK: All 4 / Apple TV (iTunes) / Prime Video (Buy/Rent) / TalkTalk TV / Rakuten TV / Sky Store Cast: Dylan OвЂ™Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Giancarlo Esposito, Aidan Gillen

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