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User Reviews for: Maze Runner: The Death Cure

superrob1500
CONTAINS SPOILERS7/10  6 years ago
I expected to get some questions answered and I got almost none of them answered. To say a few:

-Why did Thomas do what he did and more importantly what did he do? This was not elaborated on at all other than the few vague lines and scenes we got on the 1st movie
-Why/How did Thomas and Theresa end up in the maze?
-Was WCKD good or bad? (Maybe this was let up to the viewer)
[spoiler] -What was the whole point of attacking the city other than cool explosions and action shots? This didn’t seem to be a major plot point especially with Thomas being there, Also, who was Lawrence? and why purpose did he serve other than none? [/spoiler]
[spoiler] -How did no one at WCKD know about Thomas’s “special immunity”? You’d think they’d test their employees before hiring them given the circumstances. [/spoiler]
[spoiler] -Why did it seem like not everyone was on the same page about the cure? That was the purpose of WCKD right? [/spoiler]
-Why did Theresa even “betray” them in the first place? I get she just wanted to find a cure but what?

I feel like it had potential but it just devolved into mostly mindless action scenes and facepalm moments ([spoiler] Like Theresa’s death I mean COME ON [/spoiler]) that just watered down the conclusion of a story that had so much potential and had me so interested in the beginning although I will admit [spoiler] Gally's return [/spoiler] did surprise me. Nevertheless we never got the Thomas/Ava moment I was hoping for which, in turn, could have also lead to some of explanations to the above questions. Some of the side characters are just there to tug hearts ([spoiler] RIP Newt [/spoiler]) or to just be there so you have some known faces to look at. All in all not a _terrible_ conclusion to the saga but also not a great one… Just a cliché fest which comes expected with this sort of source material so no mayor points docked there for my taste. Kudos for the VFX, Some of the score and the Direction.

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[spoiler] P.S The bus crane scene has been added to my not-even-a-tiny-bit-belivable scenes list cause I don’t care how much movies play around with stuff like physics but they gotta at least try for me. I’m sorry, all of those kids would have died. [/spoiler]
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Reply by Kizz'n'Tell
6 years ago
@superrob1500 <br /> I'll just simply answer your questions trying my best to mostly talk about the movies not the books. Probably you've already found your answers in the net but I like the series so maybe I'll help whomever.<br /> 1) What Thomas did and why was explained (soo quickly) in the end of Scorch Trials, when Mary told everyone that the last time she saw Thomas was when he gave her all the adressess and other things about WCKD and that he did it bc he told her he has enough of the ways WCKD deals with finding the cure<br /> To answer also the 2nd question, Mary also suggests that this is why WCKD threw Thomas into the maze, I figure the same and that they don't have to waste him via prison or murder bc he betrayed them. But to answer this question truthfuly i would give you a major spoiler from books where in is explained to the bone. [spoiler] that Teresa and Thomas created the whole Maze and they knew they will be the last to go there, it was planned all along that they will be the test subjects as well. [/spoiler]<br /> 3. I think so myself. Frankly, I just watched the movie and I cannot be more conflicted. after reading the series I hated WCKD but after watching the last movie ... They stand for the same way of saving people as the 90% of main characters after who I would stand for and root for in such movies. But simply, I just hated Teresa in both, movies and books, so I cannot root for WCKD xD<br /> 4. Lawrence was the guy without a nose. In the books, he was a Crank bully with maybe 3 others to "lead", he had one of the best scenes in the Scorch Trials. He made me fear the heck out of the Cranks not bc they are like zombies but they're "intelligently" mad and ruthless. In the movie he's plot (I figure) is only to literally take dwn WCKD so he brought the best guns t do it. He didn't plan much above the brute force. <br /> 5. It was hinted not explained exactly, as I recall in the movies. It was bc of the Maze experience that they could think of trying to do the serum. I think it was in other movies when Ava talked about the brains and the processess that happen in the brain which makes the best possibility of the cure. They couldn't tell before what really make an immune person so they had to gave the same experiences at the same level (amnesia - when you forget all your previous experiences) to figure out what exactly is making an immune person. At the end they were still thinking that all immune people after the horrible experiences could make a cure, but as well as in other things, nature is picky, like there are only carriers of diseases who will never get sick, here there are immunes who will never get sick and a kind of immune-carrier who can make others feel better. Imo ofc<br /> 6. If you're talking about Ava/Janson example it is simply that Ava was all about the cure, no price is too big, where Janson was all about power. He wanted to be immune and have the power to give immunity to people he chooses (who can give him the most). If you're talking about why Ava and Teresa had to have meetings with sponsors it's about the research. As they've said. They gave them time and resources but they didn't make anything resembling a cure, so they finally thought about investing in gathering the remains of the healthy people (which I think they should do at the beginning)<br /> 7. I hate her so I can get this wrong :D Before the Maze she was strongly with WCKD as is shown when she doesn't understand what Thomas did and why when WCKD took him from her, when he met her in some white room or sth. She forget everything but after they left the Maze she started to remember. Like she said, after seeing her mum she became strongly invested in helping others, that noone have to go through the same thing she did. And she "betrayed" them bc she knew there wasn't talking them down, and she wated the immunes from the maze so she couldn't simply walk away and leave them to their lives. She's similar to ava, she could risk everything for the cure, no matter the cost.
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Reply by superrob1500
6 years ago
@kizz-n-tell well thank you for the insight good sir/ma'am guess I needed to pay a bit more attention but I still have some gripes with the writing in general. Guess you get what you pay for with these YA movies.
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DavidCastle
CONTAINS SPOILERS6/10  6 years ago
This movie is just okay. The action and the effects are good when they happen and the acting of the main character is pretty good as well. However, everything else with the movie is complete shit. The story is completely incoherent.

1. Why are they going after the asian character anyway? It doesn't explain it whatsoever. I thought maybe it was going to be a big revelation at the end and then nothing happened. They killed over 20 of their own people to save 1 guy. (sorry I forgot his name in the movie)

2. There were way too many coincidentl moments in the film. The movie is literally built on a coincidence. When a character, mostly Thomas, is in a about-to-die situation other characters come to the rescue just in the nic of time. I wouldn't mind it if it was once or twice but 5+ is really annoying

3. This is my biggest problem. Thomas worked for WCKD in the beginning of the first movie before his memory was wiped and dropped into the Maze. At the end of this movie its found out that Thomas's blood is the key to the cure. So this movie is telling me that THEY DIDNT TEST THEIR EMPLOYEES FOR THE CURE. ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS. THAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU DO. AGAIN ITS JUST A COINCIDENCE.
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Reply by Nikathy_
6 years ago
@davidcastle I dont remember if its described in the books but the only logical reason for me to explain this all means that the Antivirus in Thomas Blood only started to develop after he came into the Maze. Maybe he havent had the Antidote in his body before so thats why they didnt find it out in the first place.
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Reply by DavidCastle
6 years ago
@nikathy_ That would actually make sense. I remember early on in The Death Cure when the asian character (sorry still don't remember his name I think it's close to Nemo) was kidnapped and they were trying to get a cure they had to simulate that he was still in the Maze in order to get the right blood or something. <br /> <br /> I didn't read the books so that you for explaning that. I wish they did a better job of it in the movie, however.
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Gimly
/10  6 years ago
Thank you very much for not splitting this movie into two parts. As a member of _The Death Cure's_ audience I do genuinely appreciate that.

I am less appreciative however of the movie itself. It doesn't at all pay off the confusion I suffered at the hands of the franchise. My opinion on the _Maze Runner_ series has been mixed, but I feel certain that this one is the worst, and not only that, but it kind of retroactively made me appreciate the first two less.

_Final rating:★★ - Had some things that appeal to me, but a poor finished product._
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