"Moving Maze 3 The Antidote to Death": A typical demonstration of breaking good cards

Virgil 2021-11-23 08:01:13

Speaking of it, I don't really like this series, just because I have watched the first two parts, I want to finish this story.

As a movie of the same type, the completion and excitement of "Maze Moving" is a bit worse than the well-packed "The Hunger Games", and it is better than the "Divergent" that is constantly dying . The quality of the film is not embarrassing or embarrassing.

Not to mention the fact that the trilogy is getting worse and worse, this third "death antidote" originally had many conditions and opportunities to shoot well, but it was successfully evaded, and finally ended in a bad ending.

[Friendly reminder: There are spoilers below. 】

Let me talk about the most troublesome problem, and it is also an unavoidable problem in many works. The "protagonist halo" is too powerful .

The main line of the film's driving force comes from Thomas and others' rescue of Mino. It upholds the spirit of "If there are difficulties, we must rise to the difficulties, and if there are no difficulties, we must rise."

Although the protagonist's aura is inevitable, a good work can be modified, alleviated, and concealed in many ways . In this film, it can be a plan that Thomas has already prepared, or it can be equipment carried by Newt and others. To turn the risk into a bargain...

But the result is that Thomas and his friends have a brave wave of "recklessness". Whenever they are about to die, someone else will come to rescue him. When he is dozing off, someone will give him a pillow. This kind of comfort accompanies the whole journey.

Besides, the core theme that runs through the whole film is the deep friendship between the protagonist and the group. Obviously, the film regards this friendship as a more important selling point (than setting), so it should show the corresponding "sincerity" .

The fact is that the friendship between Thomas and others has no decent performance or foreshadowing in the first two movies. It is more like a "prison friend" who has to run away together. This kind of relationship can of course give birth to great friendship, but it can only Calculating a part of the cause and course does not directly evolve into a result (at least some close-ups should be given).

This gives people the feeling that XXOO is not lubricated, and it feels stiff just to listen to it.

Then I said that the series could have been called action scenes to watch . In the first "Moving Maze", "youth parkour" was the main label of the film. In the second part, this element has been faded a lot. It has become a more conventional sci-fi action movie, and when it comes to the "death antidote", the action scenes are diluted more and more dispensable, the opening of the movie robs the train, the maze and the big spider in the Minoan dream, and before and after the riots. Inside and outside of the city, all the guards and mobs completely acted as the backdrop ...

Only the following shots of Thomas and the three jumping into the pool from the experimental department building make people a little bit reactive. Compared to the lengthy process of the whole film, one or two flashes can only be regarded as the fluorescence of the rot.

The first few points can barely be regarded as the director's lack of main creative skills and can't be perfect, so the next few points are really regrettable for seeing a good deck of cards.

The first to bear the brunt is the landing of the dystopian world in the film .

The original design and implication of Escape from the Labyrinth in the first part is actually quite good, but when the third part suddenly wants to go back, it has to come up with a more tenable reason (not just to save people), but the film only gives There is a simple, face-like confrontation between inside and outside the high wall .

In fact, the original intention of "saving mankind" inside and outside the wall can be a big fuss . Ava's cold sacrifice spirit, Jensen's cold-blooded elitism, Teresa's insistence on taking the small and the bigger, Thomas' longing for freedom and equality, Even Lawrence's madness to destroy everything has the potential to be convincing.

But in the end, the above thoughts that can be magnified and dealt with any of the above are just the end (for example, Newt died in front of Thomas who could save him, can play a greater value), and there is no work left under the surface of the mediocre film. Set the corresponding depth.

Under this premise, another point that I deplore is also a matter of course-the acting skills of young actors are not to be mentioned. Under the ceiling of the film, which is visible to the naked eye, there is not much room for other powerful actors to play.

Aidan Gillen, Giancarlo Espesido, Patricia Clarkson, etc., let alone the classic characters in several American dramas in recent years, they are "Game of Thrones." "Little Finger", "Breaking Bad (Lawyer)", "Uncle Fried Chicken", "House of Cards", "Old Witch"-of course the movie can't be compared with the drama, but as long as it is a little bit more level, the performance will add value immediately Can come up.

Like Uncle Aidan, he is more suitable for playing a gloomy, city-like play as a villain. In fact, he also played this way in the second part, but in the third part, he went "Blow me up! He ran away." Angry! As long as I live!"

The most terrible thing is the ultimate positioning and ending of the film.

After going around for a long time, the hope of saving mankind finally is actually Thomas , a former employee of the experimental department . Is his blood gene mutated or something? The "death antidote" has been under the eyelids and no one has discovered it?

The handling of the ending also made me frown. Whether Thomas and Teresa escaped together for the whole reunion, the two were buried in a sea of ​​flames and caused tragedy, so that Thomas, who was about to wait for death, survived and mastered the special features of saving human technology. Resa died. This seemingly inexplicable design completely lost the point of view of the film .

What’s more ridiculous is that when the seriously injured Thomas came back to life, I thought that humans were saved. I didn’t expect Thomas to take out his vial of serum before it was over... Dare to love you and hide it, except for this paradise where you live. Never thought of saving other human beings waiting to die. Isn't this the same as the villain Jason?

By this time, I don't know if I have misunderstood it- even if all mankind is saved, it will not be able to save the lost tone of the "moving maze".

Such youth dystopian works remind us that when digging a hole, we must first think about how to fill it, and when we find that it cannot be filled, we must change the way to bury the soil.

[Welcome to pay attention to my public account "Youai Commentary Zone", sure enough, good stories in the future will only appear in American TV series and not in Hollywood movies...]

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Extended Reading
  • Logan 2021-11-23 08:01:13

    After reading it, I always have a doubt, where is the maze? There is no new idea at all, and it has become an old routine to save friends and go deep into the tiger's den.

  • Yasmeen 2022-03-25 09:01:08

    Applause for the last love letter

Maze Runner: The Death Cure quotes

  • Thomas: Do you regret it? What you did to us?

    Teresa: Sometimes. But I did what I thought was right.

  • Teresa: The world is dying. If we find a cure that's the only way all of this was worth it.