Summaries Young hero Thomas embarks on a mission to find a cure for a deadly disease known as "The Flare". 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
Maze Runner The Death Cure Review Director Wes Ball Writers Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers, and Nowlin Rating Pg-13 Release Date January 26, 2018 [MAJOR SPOILERS] What’s this? Maze Runner The Death Cure is apparently the last cinematic movie of a trilogy based on the novels of the same name. The journey began in The Maze Runner, continued with Maze Runner The Scorch Trials, and ends with The Death Cure. Unfortunately, The Death Cure leaves the series falling awfully flat, compared to feelings of intrigue and exuberance left after the first film. The film companies who want to invest in trilogies should just call Matt Reeves. The recent Planet of the Apes trilogy that just wrapped up may be one of the best trilogies in the last decade. But I digress, that’s neither here nor there. We are talking about this unfortunate collapse. So it’s just another bad end to a trilogy? Exactly. This movie plays out so much like a video game it is almost unbearable at times. Almost to the point where I can bring an Xbox controller to the movie theatre and pretend to play along with the actions. I could put my controller down for the intimate cut-scenes and then correctly playing through the Quick Time Events. RIP Spider-Man 3 The Game. The number of cliches in this movie are staggering. “You want us to go in the dark tunnel?” Boss fights in crumbling buildings, mind experimentation, kiss scenes in fiery collapses, fights against friends, the dead coming back to life, a big action set-piece to open the movie, the “last civilization” behind giant walls. If you take a shot for every scene/theme you have seen before in another movie, you will get absolutely inebriated before the halfway point of this 113 minute monster of a film. What’s The Death Cure about? Following the events of the last two films, Thomas, Newt, and I believe Frypan yes, that’s a character’s name are still immune to the virus. The movie begins with a train set piece that was ripped right out of Sam Mendes’ James Bond movie Skyfall, with the three listed above trying to steal a train that is carrying immune children in hopes of finding their kidnapped friend Minho. In the old “switchers” moment, they grab the wrong train, and decide to head to WCKD’s headquarters, the last city on Earth. Along the way they head through dark tunnels filled with cranks and barely escape. Just like possibly every zombie movie ever made. The group makes it to the WCKD city and run into a past foe who was thought to be dead, who is now their friend. Cue obvious surprise music. Now they make a deal with Gally’s boss to get inside of the city. They realize that they can use Teresa who betrayed them in The Scorch Trials to get inside of the main building to save Minho. What happens after that? What follows is a nearly 90-minute set-piece to set-up for an action-adventure ending. Thomas, Newt, and Gally work with Teresa to release the rest of the immune children WCKD is holding, find Minho, only to realize that Thomas’ blood is the only thing that can cure the crank virus. Yeah I know, even you saw that coming and you probably haven’t seen the movie yet. Outside of the walls, Gally’s leader uses the information supplied by Thomas and his friends to “storm the castle of the rich,” and effectively lead a revolution against WCKD. The ending scene of the revolution rushing in the walls is the best storyline in the movie. Not much time is spent on it. As Thomas and his friends try to escape, one of his friends reveals he’s been bitten shocker and must fend off the virus before he attacks Thomas, to no avail. Thomas must mercy-kill one of his closest friends. What about Teresa? Finally, Teresa contacts Thomas to let him know that his blood is the cure and he heads back to try to synthesize a cure. Cue double cross plot device as Janson is there to capture Thomas and reveals that the virus is turning him into a crank. He needs Thomas’ blood. The revolution starts destroying buildings and WCKD’s main building crumbles around them as Thomas fights to get loose and has a boss fight with Janson in the building. The movie ends with Janson dying with the, “You missed your shot kid. No I didn’t.” line and Teresa and Thomas passionately kiss on top of the building with fire burning around them and a hovercraft trying to transport them out. Not even joking. Teresa dies saving Thomas, leaving Thomas and the rest of the “safe haven” community to reflect on the friends they’ve lost. That’s it. Who’s in Maze Runner The Death Cure? Dylan O’ Brien returns as Thomas. Actually most if not all of the cast from the first two movies return for this last one. Which is a good sign. They believed in this trilogy and stuck through it to the end. I’m happy for them. It’s always a good sign whenever Giancarlo Esposito is apart of something. I just wished he had more screen time. But this trilogy is about the teenagers, and the one thing going for this trilogy is the acting of Dylan, Kayla, Dexter, and Ki Hong Lee as the main cast. Other than that, there are no outstanding actors or actresses that many would know. Recommendation? If you have movie pass, or a movie gift card, use it on this movie. This movie’s length works against it and the popcorn you buy will be gone before the good action begins. Honestly, this is a movie you wait for on DVD and add it to your collection to show off the latest 4K HDR Hi-Def, surround sound, etc. type of theatre set up in your home. The action set pieces at the end of this movie, while formulaic, are very fun to watch and view. The special effects are solid and this feels like the end of a trilogy, with a lot of action crammed into the end of the movie. Honestly, that’s the best part, because the story is so bland and formulaic that it forces to the viewer to groan audibly a couple times. This is a movie night movie with your friends at best. Enjoyed reading this review? Then you will probably like listening to us too, so check out our podcast below. [podbean playlist=”http%3A%2F% type=”multi” height=”315″ kdsowie31j4k1jlf913=”65c6d1509405e990354a2b159ed150d1bf07c702″ size=”315″ share=”1″ fonts=”Helvetica” auto=”0″ download=”1″ rtl=”0″ skin=”9″] Gillens Janson, as relentless as the Terminator in film two, is terribly bland in number third; he's turned into a disappointing caricature of a PG-13 bad guy. Maze Runner: The Death Cure is, however, a sufficient wrap-up to a trilogy rushed to the screen in an attempt to reach the heights of "The Hunger Games" series. Best summary PDF, themes, and quotes. More books than SparkNotes. The Death Cure Summary Thomas has been in solitary confinement after rescue from the Scorch Trials. After several weeks, Rat Man comes in and tells Thomas that the Trials are over now, and that WICKED has all the information they need. He takes Thomas to an auditorium, where the remaining subjects of the Trials are gathered. Rat Man, who is really Assistant Director Janson of WICKED, says that they are going to give the subjects their memories back. Janson also tells them that the majority of the Trial subjects are Immune to the Flare, but that a few are not. Included amongst the control variables– those who are not immune–is Newt. Thomas, Minho, and Newt refuse to undergo the memory procedure and are led to another room for solitary confinement. WICKED intends to force the procedure upon them, but Brenda, who is Thomas’s surgery technician, helps them escape. Brenda and Jorge have also been working for WICKED the whole time, but they hate the organization. They are now actually Thomas’s friends, and not just acting the part on behalf of WICKED. Brenda takes Thomas, Minho, and Newt to go find Jorge. Jorge is a pilot, and can fly a Berg out to escape the facilities. The friends manage to escape, but not without encountering WICKED guards. WICKED has a weapon called a Launcher, which electrocutes its victims. Thomas and Brenda are shot with Launchers, but they do manage to escape on the Berg. Thomas is upset to find out that Teresa and the other subjects have also escaped on a Berg he believes that they left Thomas, Minho, and Newt behind. Jorge navigates the Berg to the city of Denver in Colorado. Denver is supposedly a safe city that guards itself against the Flare infection very well. There is also a defected WICKED doctor there, a man named Hans. Brenda believes that Hans can help them remove the chips planted in Thomas, Minho, and Newt’s brains, so that WICKED can no longer control them. When they reach the Denver airport, Newt stays behind because he is not an Immune. At the airport, a man delivers a cryptic note to Thomas. The note is from Gally, who is still alive, much to Thomas’s surprise. Gally is now working for the Right Arm, an organization opposed to WICKED. Before visiting Hans, Thomas and his friends visit Gally. Gally informs them of two key facts. First, Denver has been corrupt for a very long time and is actually heavily infested with the Flare. Second, someone has been kidnapping Immunes. After seeing Gally, Thomas and his friends visit Hans, who manages to remove their WICKED control chips. As they are waiting in a coffee shop after seeing Hans, Flare testers attack a drugged-out infected man. They also capture Thomas, who lingered for too long. Thomas’s captors are bounty hunters, who want to sell him due to his Immune status. WICKED weaponry guns down Thomas’s captors, and Janson appears on a screen, asking Thomas to come back to WICKED. He says Thomas is the Final Candidate’. WICKED is not coming down to Denver because of the crazy infection rates. Thomas’s friends find him again after this encounter with Janson. They head back to the Berg, only to find that Newt is gone he has been taken by other Cranks and is now living with them. Newt’s deterioration due to the Flare is exponential. Thomas and his friends hunt down Newt, who is living at the Crank Palace’, the place where all the infected people are quarantined. Newt, who is already partially insane, tells them to leave him alone. Broken and upset, Thomas and his friends are chased out of the quarantine by other Cranks, just barely making it on board their Berg in time. Jorge flies the Berg back to the Denver entry point, but Flare tester bounty hunters immediately capture them. When Thomas and his friends are taken captive, they find that Teresa, Aris, and other members of their original groups are also prisoners of the bounty hunters. Minho helps overpower guards who come in to give them food. The guards are working for the Right Arm, not for WICKED. Thomas and Brenda insist on talking to the higher-ups of the Right Arm, and are taken through the city to the Right Arm headquarters. There, they meet Gally and the Right Arm’s head, Vince. Vince says that they are running a lookalike operation they will pretend to sell immunes to WICKED and then infiltrate the complex. Thomas agrees to be part of this plan. He will pretend to go back as the Final Candidate’, and will plant a device that will disable WICKED weapons. As they drive back through the city to the Berg that will take Thomas to WICKED, Thomas and the Right Arm personnel encounter Cranks on the street. Thomas sees Newt and tries to save him, but Newt begs for Thomas to kill him instead. Thomas finally respects his friend’s wishes, killing him. Thomas is flown up to WICKED, and pretends to hike back into the facility. Rat Man tells Thomas that they need him to sacrifice himself for science the doctors need to read his brain and use for the cure. Thomas asks for more time, hoping the Right Arm will get here before the fatal surgery. Janson does not give Thomas much time or choice, and is putting him under anesthesia just as the Right Arm does arrive. Thomas goes unconscious from an injection, but wakes up to find a letter from Chancellor Ava Paige, who has a backup plan she asks Thomas to find all the Immunes, who are hidden in the Maze, and take a Flat Trans to a safe place. As Thomas runs out to look for his friends, he realizes that the Right Arm intends only to destroy WICKED. Explosives are going off everywhere. When Thomas finds his friends, he takes them to the Maze to help get the Immunes out and to the Flat Trans. In the process, they have to fight Grievers deployed to kill them. Many people die from explosions and falling debris. Just before Thomas and his friends enter the Flat Trans, Janson and backups arrive to stop them. Thomas and his friends fight them, and Thomas kills Janson. As they prepare to finally enter the Flat Trans, Teresa dives and saves Thomas from a falling piece of ceiling; the ceiling crushes Teresa instead, killing her. Thomas and his friends enter the Flat Trans, arriving in a lush nature hideaway. Brenda disables the Flat Trans and burns the entrance around it. The group prepares to begin life again. A final correspondence from Chancellor Ava Paige reveals that the Chancellor planned this backup plan because she was afraid that a cure would never be found. She thinks that Immunes were the real hope for humanity all along. Her email also reveals that the Flare was actually released as a form of population control by the government. Thethird and final installment in the Maze Runner franchise is here two years after The Scorch Trials left us on a cliffhanger. The story in Maze Runner: The Death Cure picks up where the last one has left off. Having been betrayed by Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), Thomas (Dylan O'Brien), Frypan (Dexter Darden), Brenda (Rosa Salazar) and Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) attempt to free those who Books for young adults make some great exciting reading for teenagers, young adults and adults alike. I especially enjoy young adult dystopian novels like The Hunger Games. Recently I read The Maze Runner by James Dashner and was hooked – it is an excellent story and as it is a trilogy, I immediately moved on to book two in the series, The Scorch Trials although a worldwide pandemic and extreme weather patterns with scorched earth is very real at the moment. I really enjoyed both books and had to start reading the last in the trilogy – The Death Cure. This is definitely a series that with grab the attention of teenage readers and hold it. As we know from The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials, WICKED were running experiments and testing variables on teenage subjects to try and find a cure for a worldwide disease. But now the trials are over! Thomas and his friends have survived the mystery of the maze with its deadly grievers, endured the Scorch Trials with its insane and hungry cranks think of insane flesh-eating zombies and scorched earth with extreme temperatures and now have one final test, a voluntary test, to complete to help WICKED complete the blueprint for a cure for The Flare, the virus that has caused massive damage to the world population. But there is a problem. Thomas has been getting more of his memory back than WICKED anticipated and he knows that he can’t trust them. The time for lies is over. But the truth is more dangerous than anyone could have imagined. Overall, The Death Cure is a fantastic conclusion to The Maze Runner series. An all-action race to save the world. The Death Cure is an exciting read that concludes the trilogy nicely, although some things are still left unexplained there are two prequel novels to this series, The Kill Order and The Fever Code, that hopefully will explain in more detail about how the Maze, the Creators and the full extent of Thomas and Teresa’s involvement with WICKED and how they came about. The Death Cure sees Thomas reuniting with his friends, old and new, in a post-apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi adventure that sees them taking on the might of WICKED – an organisation backed by world governments that uses people to its own advantage without their consent. Whilst this is a series aimed at young adults, the series does feature a lot of violence, death and themes of horrible conditions and poor treatment imposed on the virus-ridden cranks, with The Death Cure probably featuring the most. I personally would recommend it for readers of 14+. Character development is great, although some might be upset with some of the characters that are killed off, but it stops short of developing the conflicting love interest Thomas has with Teresa and Brenda, which I feel was a good thing as it would have distracted from the story too much. The Maze Runner, for me, was still the best in the series but I did enjoy The Death Cure more than The Scorch Trials – there was more action that didn’t let up and more purpose to Thomas’s actions that was down to WICKED’s actions and goals slowly being revealed over the three books. With some disturbing scenes that quite often feature scary, dangerous and violent situations that might upset younger readers but with plenty of shocks and twists along the way, The Death Cure is an excellent fast-paced, exciting, all-action conclusion to an excellent series that comes full-circle and is a rollercoaster thrill-ride. The Maze Runner series is definitely a series that fans of dystopian sci-fi adventure novels and fans of The Hunger Games will love. Rating 5/5 RRP £ Paperback / £ Kindle For more information, visit Available to buy from Amazon here. DISCLOSURE All thoughts and opinions are my own. This review uses an affiliate link which I may receive a small commission from if you purchase through the link. WatchingWes Ball's "Maze Runner: The Death Cure" feels like watching the end of an era, and not just for the adaptations of Utah author James Dashner's novels. The Hunger Games is long gone, Divergent never actually finished and now, after an injury postponed production, the Maze Runner has crossed the finish line. Kompasiana adalah platform blog. Konten ini menjadi tanggung jawab bloger dan tidak mewakili pandangan redaksi Kompas. Judul Buku The Death CurePenulis James DashnerPenerbit Mizan Fantasi Tahun terbit 2011 dalam bahasa Inggris Jumlah halaman isi 436Genre Action, Fantasi, RomanceThe Death Cure adalah seri ke-3 dari novel Maze Runner karya seorang penulis Amerika bernama James Dashner. Buku ini pertama kali terbit pada tanggal 11 Oktober 2011 oleh Delacorte Press. Novel ini juga telah diangkat ke layar lebar dengan judul yang sama pada tahun 2018 sekaligus menjadi penutup trilogi The Maze Runner yang membuat banyak orang penasaran. Di seri terakhir ini berisi bagaimana keadaan dalam Wicked semakin tidak terkendali. Penculikan manusia kebal terjadi dimana-mana dan Wicked semakin gencar untuk menjadikan Thomas sebagai buronan. Thomas tidak tinggal diam, dia semakin gencar untuk mencari cara membebaskan teman-temannya dan menghancurkan Wicked. Di tengah-tengah kerja keras dan usahanya, Thomas justru menghadapi kejadian yang tidak terduga dalam hidupnya. Dimana dia bisa melihat dan bertemu dengan kawan lamanya yang ia bahkan tidak menyangka mereka bisa bertemu kembali. Dan selain bertemu dengan kawan lama, Thomas juga bertemu dengan perempuan yang hingga saat ini pun masih bisa membuat jantungnya berdetak berkali-kali lipat. Dua pertemuan itu bagaikan sebuah obat yang sangat sulit ditemukan dan merupakan satu-satunya obat yang dapat menyembuhkan hati Thomas. Perjuangnnya tidak sia-sia, Kota Denver berhasil ia lumpuhkan, ia bertemu dengan kawan lamanya, bertemu dengan cinta sejatinya, dan membebaskan teman-temannya yang diculik oleh Wicked. Namun takkdir memang tidak mempersatukan Thomas dengan cinta sejatinya, perempuan itu terjatuh dan menghantam puing bangunan saat hendak naik ke pesawat untuk pulang bersama yang tidak terduga dan akur cerita yang tidak monoton serta tidak bisa ditebak membuat banyak orang menyukai karya ini. Juga begitu banyak pesan yang dapat kita ambil seperti kesetia kawanan, kerja keras, pantang menyerah, dan masih banyak lagi. Penulis juga menyukai bagaimana nobel ini bisa membawa pembaca pada imajinasi yang tidak bisa ditemukan dalam novel manapun. Semua dikemas dengan begitu baik dalam satu paket sesempurna apapun suatu karya tetaplah memiliki kekurangan. Contohnya saja novel ini tidak cocok untuk dibaca anak di bawah umur karena banyak sekali kata-kata umpatan yang tidak sepantasnya dibaca atau didengar oleh anak di bawah umur. Dan menurut saya, karena ini novel terjemahan jadi isi nya juga menjadi kurang mengena tidak bisa seperti novel aslinya. 1 2 Lihat Fiksiana Selengkapnya 20thCentury Fox telah meluncurkan poster resmi terbaru untuk Maze Runner: The Death Cure, seri ketiga dan terakhir dalam adaptasi trilogi novel YA karya James Dashner.Dalam Poster bertajuk 'Every Maze Has An End' ini, Dylan O'Brien kembali berperan sebagai Thomas, ia terlihat memimpin sekelompok Glader untuk masuk ke Last City yang dikendalikan WCKD untuk menemukan jawaban atas semua The Death CureThe Maze Runner 3by James Dashner My rating 3 / 5Genre YA dystopian Spoiler notice The following review may contain some spoilers for the previous books in the series, The Maze Runner & The Scorch Trials. The first thought I had after I finished reading this book was, “Eh.” And in a lot of ways, that accurately sums up my thoughts on it. It was…okay. Not terrible better than book 2, but not great either. The answers in this book only solidified my theory that Dashner did not have the trilogy planned out when he wrote the first book and didn’t really know where to go from the maze. The reasoning behind all of the trials and “variables” was mediocre at best. Terminology was strange and didn’t always make sense like “killzone”, and in the end, most of what was going on was not any more grand, exciting, or surprising than everything I guessed at along the way. The ending was more of what I would call a “non-ending.” Not satisfying in any way. The characters didn’t get much better in this book. The only character I really liked throughout the series was shafted in this book. Teresa was even more pointless in this book than in the previous. And I seriously don’t get any kind of a feel for Brenda. So many people like her, but she seems fairly lifeless to me. And something she said near the beginning of this book, now that I think of it, makes no real sense and barely came into play. So in the end, would I recommend this series? No. Not to adult readers, at least. Maybe teenagers get more out of it, I don’t know. It seems like it’s one of those that you either love or just don’t care for at all. I liked the first book, but the rest of the series didn’t deliver on that set-up. And I have no desire to read the two prequel books. Find out more about The Death Cure See what I’m reading next. If you’ve read this book, or read it in the future, feel free to let me know what you think! Title The Death Cure (The Maze Runner #3) Author: James Dashner Publisher: Delacorte Books For Young Readers Publication Date: October 11th, 2011 Genre: YA, Dystopia, Science Fiction This review contains spoilers concerning The Maze Runner and The Scorch Trials. In this final instalment of The Maze Runner series, the stakes are higher than ever for Thomas and the other Gladers. 403 ERROR The Amazon CloudFront distribution is configured to block access from your country. We can't connect to the server for this app or website at this time. There might be too much traffic or a configuration error. Try again later, or contact the app or website owner. If you provide content to customers through CloudFront, you can find steps to troubleshoot and help prevent this error by reviewing the CloudFront documentation. Generated by cloudfront CloudFront Request ID Llc9ehI4i6PpsVBbeQpCEn2atGyMVAptxNG2hgf0i7trxIZhPc-pmw== TheDeath Cure by James Dashner has been reviewed by Focus on the Family's marriage and parenting magazine. It is the third book in the "The Maze Runner" series. At the end of the novel, he kisses her cheek and then her lips. Book reviews cover the content, themes and worldviews of fiction books, not their literary merit, and A Lot or a Little? What you will—and won't—find in this book. What's the Story? After five weeks of solitary confinement at WICKED the government agency headquarters, Thomas needs a shower and some answers. They're willing to give him both if he's ready to get his memory back through an operation. But when he and some of his friends decide against getting their memories back it sets in motion an escape plan to Denver, one of the protected cities where the Flare disease is screened for and protected against constantly. All is not so safe in Denver, though. Looking for other escaped friends uncovers plots to take down WICKED - about time, Thomas thinks - and rumors of city officials becoming ill and spreading the disease. It's not long before lawlessness reigns and Thomas has to decide whom he's going to side with the too-powerful government that still wants his help, the rebels who want to take them down, or his friends who just want out of government control for good. Talk to Your Kids About ... Families can talk about what a dark dystopian world this is. How is it different from other books you've read? Do you think the goals of the scientists will ever be met? Do you think Thomas made the right decision in the end? Do you think all the violence in this book made sense for the story the author was trying to tell or was it too much? If you were Thomas would you want your memory back? Why did he make the decision he did? .