Thomas (Dylan O’Brien as the saga’s blank hero) and his pals Newt (“Love Actually” peewee Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and Frypan (Dexter Darden) decide to break into the walled fortress and free the children from the evil clutches of the people who are trying to… uh… save what’s left of the human race. Case in point: The crux of “The Death Cure” is that WCKD have captured 28 immune kids and locked them in a laboratory somewhere in a gleaming metropolis referred to as The Last City (imagine a cross between downtown Vancouver and Midgar from “Final Fantasy VII”). That adolescent streak is more evident than ever in this climactic chapter, which doubles down on the posturing violence that these films have always performed so well, while also propping itself up with an idealistic logic that might be lost on older viewers. Because no matter how adult this series may pretend to be, it’s ultimately still young at heart. That shady government agent’s name: WCKD (short for World in Catastrophe: Killzone Experiment Department, and pronounced “wicked”).
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In the trilogy’s first installment, a handful of twentysomethings with flawless skin escaped from a deadly labyrinth and opened the secret door at the end only to discover (dun dun dunn!!!) Patricia Clarkson! The sequel found our photogenic heroes learning that they are immune to the pathogen that continues to shred our species, and had been used as glorified lab rats by the shady government agency hoping to repurpose their bodily fluids into some kind of cure.
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Picking up where 2015’s “ Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” left off - and bringing the best and most kinetic of the post-apocalyptic YA sagas to an exhausting finish - “ The Death Cure” reintroduces us to a fallen world where a killer virus has decimated most of the population.