MAZE RUNNER: THE DEATH CURE

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You’ll have to slog your way through the pedestrian third and final episode of this meandering sci-fi adventure. Conceived as a male-orientated cash-in on Jennifer Lawrence’s wildly successful Hunger Games series, it’s set in a ravaged future where an incurable disease has shattered civilisation and created a race of rabid zombies.

Having escaped the lethal maze of the title, our immune merry band of photogenic outlaws have to break into the remaining city of a totalitarian regime to rescue one of their own.

There’s a nifty train heist in a well-constructed and exciting pre-title sequence, but it’s a misleading advert for the grind which follows. Due to a serious on-set accident to lead hunk Dylan O’Brien, there’s been a three-year gap since the previous episode. Given the fickle nature of its young adult target audience and a longer than intended wait, it will be interesting to see if anyone still cares.

By the time this remarkably unmemorable marathon was over, I certainly didn’t.