This week there will be a movie that will be released simultaneously in North America and at home, and that is the final chapter of a science fiction trilogy that includes elements such as doomsday zombies:
Moving Labyrinth 3: Antidote to Death
the maze runner: the death cure
The Maze of Moving Series is based on James Dashner's best-selling novel of the same name.
The novel describes a dystopian doomsday scene.
Due to the impact of solar flares, the earth's resources have been greatly reduced, the environment has been damaged, and the virus has been rampant.
People infected by the virus will become zombie-like creatures, they have lost their human will and are very aggressive.
At the same time, there are also a considerable number of people in the world who are immune to the virus.
The immunized people were sent to a giant labyrinth on the island of Crete by a tissue called "wicked" to be used as subjects to develop drugs that could fight the virus.
The people who were sent into the labyrinth were cleared of their memories and therefore unaware of the conspiracies behind them.
They form teams, live in the maze, and always look for ways to escape.
Because the maze changes every day and there are man-eating mechanical monsters at night, they are trapped for three years and have not found a way to escape.
All this changed with the arrival of a boy named Thomas.
The newcomer Thomas remembers nothing but his own name, except for the occasional fragment of memory that crosses his mind.
Living in the maze and with the help of his teammates, through repeated explorations of the maze, he gradually regained his lost memories.
It turned out that he had been a member of Wicked and was also immune to the virus.
Because he could not bear to see the people in the labyrinth being treated like this, he planned to break away from the organization, but unexpectedly the organization cleansed the memory and threw it into the maze.
Thomas, who has regained his memory, is determined to lead his friends out of the clutches of the devil.
But after much effort to escape the labyrinth, they realized that the real test was coming.
Under the attack of the infected and the rounding up of the organization, they had to continue to flee in order to survive, but they did not expect that this was actually another "scorched earth test" similar to the maze plan.
At the same time, they also face various problems such as the betrayal of teammates and the arrest of their peers, and there are many crises.
And eventually, they finally understand that blindly running away will not solve the problem.
Figuring out Wicked's true purpose and fighting it is the only way to end it all.
So they decide to go back in the direction they came from, to rescue their companions, and to fight the mysterious organization Wicked for the final battle.
And in this battle, all the unclear parts of the front will be answered.
The meaning and true purpose of wicked's existence is also about to be revealed.
The final chapter of this film still maintains the lineup of the previous game.
The director continued with Wes Bohr, who directed parts 1 and 2.
In terms of actors, it is continued by the original team members Madhlan O'Brien, Kaya Skodario, Thomas Sangster, Lee Ki-hong and so on.
After four years, the original young teenagers have increased their sense of maturity.
Among them, the heroine Kaya Skodario even picked the heroine in the "Pirates of the Caribbean 5" released last year, and presumably the star path will be more frank after that.
Also as a juvenile dystopian work, "Moving Labyrinth" is inevitably compared with "The Hunger Games" and "Divergents".
But compared with the "Hunger Games" irony and criticism of reality, "Divergent" for the shaping of a powerful world view, the "Moving Maze" series pays more attention to the film's compact rhythm, smooth visual effects and suspense.
It takes "running" as the core of the film, creating a tight and intense atmosphere.
In each work, the protagonist is always limited by some kind of restriction and has to "run".
The first part is a maze that changes and moves;
The second part is the hordes of infected people and the organization of ghost fetuses to encircle and suppress people;
Round after round of pursuit is breathless and makes the audience in front of the screen nervous.
Also in the setting of the end of the world, the film also throws up the ancient and inexplicable topic of whether a small number of people can be sacrificed to save the world.
At present, "Moving Maze 3: Antidote to Death" has a low reputation on Rotten Tomatoes, with only a freshness rating of 47%, but it has a good rating of 7.2 on imdb.
According to the trailer currently revealed, the third part should be the integration of the first two parts, which not only returns to the theme of "labyrinth", but also releases the tense thriller elements of the previous work again.
In short, it is to make you feel the sense of urgency of "running and running" and "rushing".
In the shaping of the scene, it is also more delicate and grand.
And the great conspiracy of the organization that was not explained in the previous work will also surface, so it is still worth looking forward to.