‘Maze Runner: The Death Cure’
It’s literally taken five years for James Dashner’s Maze Runner trilogy to reach its conclusion – cinematically, that is.
In 2013, the first movie of the series entitled The Maze Runner introduced a group of teenagers imprisoned in a glade, from which it was seemingly impossible to escape, as they were surrounded by a maze of enormous, continually shifting concrete walls.
Can you just imagine going to bed ‘normally’ one night and then in the morning waking up to find not only that you’ve been captured, placed in a cage, learned to fend for yourself, but also joined a group of strangers having no idea whether they are friend or foe?
Pretty scary, I would say under any circumstances, but for a child/teen even more so!
This was the premise upon which the first book (and film) was based with the main goal being to escape from ‘The Glade’ by working their way through the maze.
Two years later (2015), the second in the cinematic adaptation of Dashner’s trilogy appeared – Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials.
This time around, the ‘Gladers’, having escaped from the maze forge their way through ‘The Scorch’
– a wasteland that has been scorched by ‘The Flare’ – a disease which has almost decimated the world’s population… and, that brings us back to why these youngsters had been captured – they were immune and therefore, possessed the properties necessary to develop a cure.
This weekend, make the most of the opportunity to see the cinematic conclusion at Ster-Kinekor Boardwalk Inkwazi Shopping Centre.
Maze Runner: The Death Cure is a tense, exciting twoand-a-half-hour adventure which is worth the trip to the cinema as it definitely needs to be seen on the ‘big screen’!