![]() ![]() ‘I know it’s hard, but act like you’ve seen it before,’ one character says to gawping young hero Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) on arrival. ![]() ![]() So where last instalment ‘The Scorch Trials’ took us out of the monster-stalked labyrinth into a parched, depopulated ‘Mad Max’-meets-‘I Am Legend’ wasteland, ‘The Death Cure’ draws us into a skyscraper-packed, ‘Blade Runner’-ish metropolis. Somewhere between the beloved, blockbusting ‘Hunger Games’ and the fizzled-out ‘Divergent’ franchise, Young Adult dystopia has found its uncomfortable middle ground in director Wes Ball’s ‘Maze Runner’ trilogy.Īdapted from James Dashner’s novel, this weighty third chapter continues the series’s concerted journey away from the intensely contained, high-concept action-puzzle milieu of 2014’s ‘The Maze Runner’ into less interesting, more familiar genre territory.
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