MAZE RUNNER : THE DEATH CURE REVIEW *SPOILER ALERT*
Watched at : KLCC
Time : 5:30 pm
Day : Saturday
Date : 27th January 2018
The Maze Runner is a trilogy movie that adapted from books with the same name written by James Dashner. Although there's a prologue book with the title of The Kill Order. The recent movie that came out is Maze Runner : The Death Cure. The one before that is The Maze Runner The Scorch Trial and the first one is The Maze Runner. It is impossible to talk about The Death Cure without the other two. It is like the Divergent series or maybe The Lord of The Rings, the movies is a one long journey that continued from one movie to the next one. If you have watched these two movie series you'll know what I mean.
Like you already know in the second movie, Minho(Ki Hong Lee) was abducted and The Death Cure is started with an attempt of Thomas(Dylan O'Brian) and his friend saving Minho. They use quite an interesting setup to watch, including what I would like to call a chopper rescue (It is used quite a number of times in this movie but it is still awe~~~some~~). The resolve of Thomas to rescue Minho got viewers felt for the characters as Minho had mentioned in The Scorch Trial he does not want end up like the other kids that got caught up. Then there's Newt(Thomas Brodie-Sangster) that always go where Thomas go. This trilogy is really is about believe, trust and friendship. The book has written the three element well and the director Wes Ball has portray it well in the three movies.
The series progress where the main goal of Thomas and his friends is none other to save their friend Minho while Teresa(Kaya Scodelario) that had gained her memories back put the world as her priority by researching the cure. The two characters' opinion is clashed and no one wanna backed down. Thomas,Newt and Frypan(Dexter Darden) then make a journey to WCKD HQ which is a city that built within walls (Attack on Titan styles XD ). The group joined by Jorge(Giancarlo Esposito) and Brenda(Rosa Salazar) in the middle then to our surprise, they meet a familiar face. I am not gonna spoil it for you(Hint: Thomas hated the guy), and they also meet the Ugly Face Lawrence(Walton Goggins) that leads a group of Cranks or non-immune to fight with WCKD.
The final clash is great to watch as a lot of things happen that give viewers a lot to see. The lunatic side of Lawrence that will caught you by surprise, the reunion of the guys with Minho, the death of some characters(no spoiler either) that would give you a mix up feelings. Dylan O'Brian play Thomas well, as a guy that want to save all friends no matter what. You really just want to root the guys to fight and win. Wes Ball also success to show his skills by putting some good action scenes. Viewers will be on the edge of their seats as the guys always on the run (It is Maze RUNNER after all) and keep on stumble upon dead ends. However, all is well of course, as you book readers know ;). Oh and by the way, the death scenes might make you tear up a little, or at least you will hold your breath and make sure the guys next to you in cinema does not see your face. The ending scene is somehow satisfying to watch as Thomas read the letter from his late friend. However, when he hold the cure in his hand it left viewers wondering what is the future of the world while they stay at the safe haven. After all Thomas is The Death Cure.
All and all, although there are a lot of differences between the books and the movies I still enjoy all three movies. Maze Runner: The Death Cure is approved by Ibrahim Khaziq! ;). Go watch it with your bestfriends!!!
Before I end this, for you viewers that never read the books let me list some of the big differences between the books and the movies.
First, the one that I really wanted to see actually, in the books Teresa and Thomas can communicate telepathically, in fact Teresa almost go all silent when he woke up in the Glade and only talks to Thomas via telepathy. So is Aris and Rachel by the way, the kids on the other Maze, and this is due to a chip implanted in their brain before they sent to the Glade.
Second, in Scorch Trial book, the Scorch is actually another Trial they put under after the Maze by none other than WCKD itself. The harsh environment and the Cranks in the Scorch should be the element that could make the cure enzyme produced by the immune kids.
Third, the Maze in the book and the movie is totally not the same puzzle. The way they solve it also different oviously.
Last but not least, I think the movies not show clear enough that in the book, Thomas is actually one of the important researcher in finding the cure at WCKD before he get rid of his memories and enter the Glade. He and Teresa is actually like the lead researcher. Well, there are a lot of them but if I list it here, well, this will become a long review. So why don't you head to Youtube and watch it for yourself, or you know, you can just read the books. Heheheh.
