After a delay of over a year from its original scheduled release, the third and final installment of the Maze Runner trilogy finally hit the theaters last week. I saw it today and all I can say is…well…that was $7.50 and a little more than two hours of my life I'll never get back.
Okay, I will admit it's been a few years since I read the book, and I'm a little hazy on the small details. But c'mon. This was one of those films "based on" a book that the script writer obviously never actually read; the "based on" part being the title of the book, a few of the characters, and precious little else. I suppose I should have expected it; the previous film was just as off-script as this one,
It's kind of sad because the first film was faithful to the source material and it was a genuinely interesting story. I guess subsequent marketing surveys convinced the filmmakers that there just wasn't enough blowing shit up in the two subsequent books to attract their desired demographic. and changes needed to be made.
And oh…was there ever a lot of blowing shit up in this last film.
As I read in a review,"By the time the villainous scientist played by Aidan Gillen sighs in the middle of a fight scene, 'Okay, that's enough,' you'll have long since come to share his weariness."
That about sums it up.