The first film - like all the entries, adapted from a novel by James Dashner - had a pleasing unity of place and action. Oblivious to occupying the pop-culture equivalent of the bottom half of a double bill, “Maze Runner: The Death Cure” aspires to be a grand male weepie: the “Shawshank Redemption” of “Maze Runner” movies. the teenage dystopian franchise that’s not “The Hunger Games” and the sci-fi opera that’s not “Star Wars,” returns with an almost gleefully overstuffed third installment.
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