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In many ways, The Death Cure represents the death knell of the YA dystopian sci-fi/adventure/romance book series adaptation craze kick-started by The Hunger Games and Twilight. Unfortunately, The Death Cure pulls a Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and gets the most intriguing and engaging sequence out of the way before lazily settling into the strictest baseline expectations from its genre. The gang save a bunch of the immune children, but Minho isn’t among them, which propels Thomas and a small group of his besties to rescue him from the last functioning city on Earth, which also happens to be surrounded by those “impossible to crack” security measures found in every sci-fi/action and heist movie.
Unfortunately for Thomas, Minho and his gang of WB network Mad Max reboot rejects, they are those immune kids, so The Death Cure immediately hits the ground running with this previously teased rescue mission and knocks it out of the park. The last entry in the Maze Runner franchise, The Scorch Trials, based on a series of young adult post-apocalyptic action novels by James Dashner, bluntly ended in a blatant “Next time on Maze Runner” cliffhanger, where the dashing yet fairly bland protagonist Thomas (Dylan O’Brian) promised to come up with a brilliant plan to save his BFF Minho (Ki Hong Lee) from the dastardly claws of WCKD, a health research organization that, besides not paying enough attention to its acronym, is determined to sacrifice the lives of kids who are immune to a world-destroying virus in order to find a cure.
The pre-credits train rescue sequence is a meticulously constructed action set piece where conflict is gradually introduced with well-paced precision, proving once again how a balanced combination of slow-boiling suspense and clarity of stakes is sometimes all that’s needed to immediately engage the audience. The best scene in Maze Runner: The Death Cure occurs before we even get a look at the title.
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