Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

Awards
- 7 nominations

Trivia
On March 18, 2016, it was reported that actor Dylan O'Brien was injured on set and was hospitalized. He suffered serious injuries when he was dragged under the vehicle to which he was strapped, while filming the opening train chase sequence on 17 March. His injuries included concussion, fractured cheekbones and orbital socket as well as lacerations. James Dashner announced via Twitter that the production was postponed after the accident. However, on April 29, 2016, when his recovery took longer than expected, production was shut down indefinitely. On May 27, 2016, 20th Century Fox rescheduled the film for January 12, 2018, allowing time for Dylan O'Brien to fully recover from his injuries sustained on-set. Production resumed almost a year later, in February 2017.

Goofs
In the background of the scene where Ava and Theresa meet in the hall way of a building, you can see a South African flag out the window on the right. That is due to this being shot in South Africa at the Cape Town International Convention center.

Quotes
[last lines]
Newt: [Thomas reading Newt's letter] Dear Thomas, this is the first letter I could remember writing. Obviously, I don't know if I wrote any before the Maze. But even if it's not my first, it's likely to be my last. I want you to know that I'm not scared. Well, not of dying, anyway. It's more forgetting. It's losing myself to this virus, that's what scares me. So every night, I've been saying their names out loud. Alby. Winston. Chuck. And I just repeat them over and over like a prayer, and it - And it all comes flooding back. Just the little things like where the sun used to hit the Glade at that perfect moment right before it slipped beneath the walls. And I remember the taste of Frypan's stew. I never thought I'd miss that stuff so much. And I remember you. From the first time you came up in the box, just a scared little Greenie who couldn't even remember his own name. But from that moment you ran into the Maze, I knew I would follow you anywhere. And I have. We all have. If I could do it all over again, I would. And I wouldn't change a thing. My hope for you: when you're looking back years from now, you'll be able to say the same. The future is in your hands now, Tommy. I know you'll find a way to do what's right. You always have. Take care of everyone for me. And take care of yourself. You deserve to be happy. Thank you for being my friend. Goodbye, mate. Newt.

Alternate versions
UK version was cut by the distributor to secure a "12A" rating.

Connections
Featured in Chris Stuckmann Movie Reviews: Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018)

Soundtracks
Memories
from Mass Effect: Andromeda (2017)
Written by John Paesano

A weak an predictable ending to a saga that no one cared about anymore

Yes, it's a young adult story. Yes, it's got all the shortcomings of lazy writing. Yes, it's all incredible beautiful teens fighting the evil uncaring adults who envy them their youth. And with all that, Maze Runner had something in the first movie that made me want to watch it. Some sort of story, maybe the acting, maybe the whole thing. I just enjoyed it. So I watched the second movie to see what happens and then this piece of crap from pure inertia. And it was just not worth it.

Imagine two hours and twenty minutes that could have been compressed into a five minute How It Should Have Ended animation (which would have been better). Kids are good, WICKED is bad (duh!), bullets kind of care about that because they fly away from the good guys and things just happen to be where you need them to be for them to escape and not kill anyone, not even the bad guys, because they are the good guys. A lot of talk, a lot of talk, then some talk, followed by more talk. The last part of the movie has all the action sequences and they are all Michael Bayish.

Bottom line: I don't think they even tried to make it a good movie. It was all algorithmic. Why end a series that at least started interesting with a twist, or some nice action, or anything resembling a story? No. Take any other YA movie and copy paste it over these characters. It's like creativity costs money for these people. It's like it hurts them, like the sun kills bugs. It was so boring that it wasn't even funny.