Discouraged rebellious and definitely not trusting, Thomas, Newt, Minho, Brenda and Jorge break out and escape to Denver, now a walled city meant to be reserved for the uninfected and the immune. But it's all too clear that Newt has already been infected and is teetering on the verge of madness.
Kompasiana adalah platform blog. Konten ini menjadi tanggung jawab bloger dan tidak mewakili pandangan redaksi Kompas. Judul Buku The Death CurePenulis James DashnerPenerbit Mizan Fantasi Tahun terbit 2011 dalam bahasa Inggris Jumlah halaman isi 436Genre Action, Fantasi, RomanceThe Death Cure adalah seri ke-3 dari novel Maze Runner karya seorang penulis Amerika bernama James Dashner. Buku ini pertama kali terbit pada tanggal 11 Oktober 2011 oleh Delacorte Press. Novel ini juga telah diangkat ke layar lebar dengan judul yang sama pada tahun 2018 sekaligus menjadi penutup trilogi The Maze Runner yang membuat banyak orang penasaran. Di seri terakhir ini berisi bagaimana keadaan dalam Wicked semakin tidak terkendali. Penculikan manusia kebal terjadi dimana-mana dan Wicked semakin gencar untuk menjadikan Thomas sebagai buronan. Thomas tidak tinggal diam, dia semakin gencar untuk mencari cara membebaskan teman-temannya dan menghancurkan Wicked. Di tengah-tengah kerja keras dan usahanya, Thomas justru menghadapi kejadian yang tidak terduga dalam hidupnya. Dimana dia bisa melihat dan bertemu dengan kawan lamanya yang ia bahkan tidak menyangka mereka bisa bertemu kembali. Dan selain bertemu dengan kawan lama, Thomas juga bertemu dengan perempuan yang hingga saat ini pun masih bisa membuat jantungnya berdetak berkali-kali lipat. Dua pertemuan itu bagaikan sebuah obat yang sangat sulit ditemukan dan merupakan satu-satunya obat yang dapat menyembuhkan hati Thomas. Perjuangnnya tidak sia-sia, Kota Denver berhasil ia lumpuhkan, ia bertemu dengan kawan lamanya, bertemu dengan cinta sejatinya, dan membebaskan teman-temannya yang diculik oleh Wicked. Namun takkdir memang tidak mempersatukan Thomas dengan cinta sejatinya, perempuan itu terjatuh dan menghantam puing bangunan saat hendak naik ke pesawat untuk pulang bersama yang tidak terduga dan akur cerita yang tidak monoton serta tidak bisa ditebak membuat banyak orang menyukai karya ini. Juga begitu banyak pesan yang dapat kita ambil seperti kesetia kawanan, kerja keras, pantang menyerah, dan masih banyak lagi. Penulis juga menyukai bagaimana nobel ini bisa membawa pembaca pada imajinasi yang tidak bisa ditemukan dalam novel manapun. Semua dikemas dengan begitu baik dalam satu paket sesempurna apapun suatu karya tetaplah memiliki kekurangan. Contohnya saja novel ini tidak cocok untuk dibaca anak di bawah umur karena banyak sekali kata-kata umpatan yang tidak sepantasnya dibaca atau didengar oleh anak di bawah umur. Dan menurut saya, karena ini novel terjemahan jadi isi nya juga menjadi kurang mengena tidak bisa seperti novel aslinya. 1 2 Lihat Fiksiana Selengkapnya
TheDeath Cure by James Dashner | Book Reviews Death Cure Maze Runner 3 Audiobook Book Vs. Movie: The Death Cure Naval Ravikant: Investing, Making Decisions, Happiness and the Meaning of Life The Death Cure is actually a really difficult novel for me to review because it actually left me feeling pretty indifferent. I enjoyed it more than
Home Movies Movie Reviews Maze Runner The Death Cure Review - The Trilogy Ends With a Shrug Maze Runner The Death Cure provides a satisfactory concluding chapter to the YA dystopian trilogy, and little else beyond action spectacle. Maze Runner The Death Cure provides a satisfactory concluding chapter to the YA dystopian trilogy, and little else beyond action spectacle. When The Maze Runner first arrived in theaters in 2014, it was amid the heyday of sci-fi dystopian action films based on young adult novels. The Hunger Games had found a great deal of success with its second installment, The Hunger Games Catching Fire, and Divergent had just launched a film franchise that was expected to be the next hit. However, as The Hunger Games film series ran its course, and Divergent tanked before it could receive a final installment, The Maze Runner was originally set to debut its trilogy capper amid a dying - and incredibly narrow - genre of movies. However, as a result of an on set injury for the film's biggest star, the third and final chapter was delayed, which didn't help the movie. Maze Runner The Death Cure provides a satisfactory concluding chapter to the YA dystopian trilogy, and little else beyond action spectacle. The Death Cure picks up six months after the conclusion of Maze Runner The Scorch Trials, which left Thomas Dylan O'Brien, Newt Thomas Brodie-Sangster, and their friend from the Glade, Frypan Dexter Darden, with a group who is trying to escape the reach of WCKD by fleeing to an island paradise. While Thomas and his friends are able to free some teenagers from a WCKD transport, the one they were looking for - their fellow Glader Minho Ki Hong Lee - is still in the hands of their enemy. Splintering off from the main group led by Vince Barry Pepper, Thomas, Newt, Frypan and their allies Jorge Giancarlo Esposito and Brenda Rosa Salazar head to the Last City in order to save Minho. Once they arrive at the city, they find that WCKD has built walls to keep out those infected with the Flare virus. While wading through on the outskirts of the city filled with Cranks who haven't descended into the rage-filled madness of the virus, Thomas and his allies come across an old friend - of sorts. They're taken to Lawrence Walton Goggins, who helps Thomas sneak into the city so he and his friends can set about rescuing Minho. However, part of their plan hinges on trusting someone who betrayed the group in The Scorch Trials Teresa Kaya Scodelario. She's been working with WCKD's Ava Page Patricia Clarkson and Janson Aidan Gillen to find a cure that will save humanity from extinction via the Flare virus. Facing innumerable obstacles, it's up to Thomas and his allies to save their friends and finally escape from WCKD once and for all. The Death Cure arriving roughly two and a half years after the previous installment in The Maze Runner series does the film no favors. To their credit, director Wes Ball and screenwriter Nowlin - having worked on the entire franchise together - are able to deliver a trilogy capper that is thematically and tonally in line with the overall series. The pacing and momentum of the film also work to its benefit. The Death Cure jumps right into the action, and keeps up a breakneck pace of major plot beats interspersed with plenty of action spectacle. It's a recipe that provides an entertaining experience, but the dramatic moments depend perhaps too much on character and plot from previous films, so that they lose a great deal of punch if viewers haven't seen The Maze Runner or The Scorch Trials in some time - or at all. The story of The Death Cure, while relatively simple on paper since it's essentially a rescue mission, is overcomplicated by a number of other plot threads - most of which don't payoff. There is a half-baked uprising against WCKD that is only tangentially related to the main characters and serves little purpose other than to paint an explosive background to what's meant to be the true emotional stakes of the movie Thomas saving his friends. However, The Death Cure doesn't really dive deeper into the conflict between Thomas and WCKD. Rather, it relies heavily on context set up in previous films and little or poor worldbuilding. The motivations of Ava Paige and Janson aren't even remotely interrogated by the film or the characters - they're simply evil for survival's sake. Exploring the theme of what lengths humans will go to in order to survive, and what that means for their humanity, is common among the dystopian sci-fi genre. Unfortunately, The Death Cure only provides a surface-level examination of this theme among its main characters. Thomas epitomizes humanity in his need to save everyone from WCKD, even when it puts him in immediate danger. Meanwhile, Janson and Ava are on the opposite end of the spectrum, rationalizing that the ends justify the means, so long as the end is their survival. Teresa receives the most depth of those on the "evil" side of the narrative, and while the film attempts a redemption arc, it pays off in an exceptionally cliche way. Certainly, there may have been a thoughtful examination of humanity in The Death Cure, but it's bogged down by an overcomplicated futuristic world - one that's never clearly laid out, even after three movies - and sacrificed for action spectacle. For their parts, the young cast of The Death Cure bring as much heart to the film as is possible. O'Brien is charismatic enough as the hero-with-a-heart-of-gold, but a little flat - though that's largely because Thomas isn't given much emotional range beyond concern for his friends and anger at those who have wronged him. Brodie-Sangster gets a more dynamic arc in The Death Cure and shines brighter. Scodelario, Salazar and Lee round out the young cast well enough, getting their moments to shine. Clarkson and Esposito turn out serviceable performances as their characters, while Gillen delivers an unsurprising villain. But The Death Cure actor who is done the biggest disservice by sharing the screen with so many others is Goggins, who gives a brief but truly memorable performance as Lawrence. All told, The Death Cure provides a satisfying conclusion to The Maze Runner trilogy that will likely appease fans of the film franchise, and the book series written by James Dashner who appears with a brief cameo early on in the movie. There is a great deal of spectacle, though, that makes The Death Cure an enjoyable enough experience for fans or those with low expectations - but perhaps a bit too much handheld camerawork in certain sequences to see this film in 3D or IMAX. However, as The Death Cure effectively concludes the last film franchise that was born of the popularity of The Hunger Games, it doesn't provide any real incentive to revive the narrow genre of dystopian YA-based sci-fi that has a future as bleak as the apocalyptic landscapes they depict. Trailer Maze Runner The Death Cure is now playing in theaters nationwide. It runs 141 minutes and is rated PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi violence and action, language, and some thematic elements. Let us know what you thought of the film in the comments! Key Release Dates
Review If ever there was proof that not every book should have a trilogy, it's The Death Cure. Sure, The Maze Runner was an interesting concept, but it brought up a lot of questions. None of these questions were answered by the end of the series since most of the focus was on random action sequences rarely driven by the main characters
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Screenplayadapted by T.S. Nowlin, from the novels by James Dashner. Directed by Wes Ball. Rated " PG-13" Continue reading for Patrick McDonald's full review of "Maze Runner: The Death Cure"
The past few years have been a rather dystopian era for dystopian YA film adaptations. After “The Hunger Games” became a genuine phenomenon, studios went on a spending spree, scouring increasingly indistinguishable tales of chosen ones and oppressive government regimes for potential franchises, with decidedly mixed results. Ever since Jennifer Lawrence called time on Katniss, “Divergent” has fizzled out rather ignominiously; “Ender’s Game” and “The 5th Wave” proved to be nonstarters; and after a delayed production that saw series lead Dylan O’Brien injured in an on-set accident, “Maze Runner The Death Cure,” the third and final entry in Fox’s adaptations of James Dashner’s books, finally arrives this month with relatively little fanfare. Somewhat surprisingly, however, “Maze Runner’s” core team – including original series director Wes Ball – have rallied to give this once middling saga a proper sending-off. Downplaying some of the property’s sillier elements when not jettisoning them entirely, and streamlining the narrative into a rousing and at times even emotional action film, “Death Cure” is the most successful entry in the franchise by far. It may be too late to turn the cultural tide on the genre, but it comes as a relief to see at least one series manage to stick the landing. Perhaps mindful that the film is unlikely to attract many newcomers at this point, “Death Cure” devotes almost no time to catching audiences up on the events of 2014’s “The Maze Runner” and 2015’s “Maze Runner The Scorch Trials.” For those with short memories, our hero Thomas O’Brien is still hard at work fighting an evil, quasi-governmental agency known as WCKD, which imprisoned him and a slew of comparably good-looking youngsters in a monster-filled labyrinth called “The Glade” in the first film, then pursued them across a harsh desert wasteland in the second. They did this as part of a needlessly complicated strategy to fight a massive global pandemic known as “The Flare,” which turns the infected into mindless zombie-like creatures called cranks. The poor kids imprisoned in the maze they call themselves “Gladers” are immune to the Flare virus’ effects, and WCKD’s head pair of sinister scientists Aidan Gillen, Patricia Clarkson subject them to various nefarious procedures to try to extract a cure from their blood. This underlying concept, as revealed at the end of the first film and elaborated upon endlessly in the second, is all exceedingly daft – and the more the series’ mythology expands, the daffier it tends to get. But it’s here that “Death Cure” makes its most surprising choice it barely concerns itself with the particulars of the whole conspiracy at all. Instead, what we get is essentially an old-school jailbreak movie, and director Ball wastes zero time flexing his action chops, kicking off the film with a solidly executed train robbery sequence. The robbers in question are Thomas and his trusty Glader buddies Newt Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Frypan Dexter Darden, as well sardonic resistance fighters Brenda Rosa Salazar and Jorge Giancarlo Esposito. Their target is a train full of young prisoners headed to a WCKD facility, among them the group’s captured comrade Minho Ki Hong Lee. They manage to rescue a car full of kids successfully, but Minho is not among them – he’s been taken to WCKD headquarters in this wasteland’s mythical last bastion of civilization, the appropriately named Last City. The gang all pledge to rescue their friend or die trying. The Last City, which they reach after some rote zombie-fighting, essentially resembles a landlocked Hong Kong, its gleaming skyscrapers surrounded by massive, heavily fortified walls that keep the filthy rabble living in shantytowns below from entering. “The walls are new – I guess that’s WCKD’s answer to everything,” Esposito’s Jorge says, in one of several moments that seem to draw fairly explicit parallels to the Trump administration. Inside, Minho is suffering through WCKD’s various laboratory tortures, all carried out by a onetime Glader and previous Thomas love interest-turned-traitor, Teresa Kaya Scodelario. Struggling to find a way inside, Thomas and company fall in with a mysterious, gruesomely scarred resistance figure Walton Goggins, as well as an unexpected returning character from the first film. Once they finally breach the city walls, the film comes to life. While “Death Cure’s” sweeping aerial shots still rely on obvious computer graphics, the street-level city scenes are among the series’ most fully realized and effectively designed, from the propaganda videos broadcasting on electric billboards to the half-glimpsed arrests of the suspected infected on teeming street corners. While not as visually resplendent as “The Hunger Games’” Capitol, the Last City is a believable rendering of a post-apocalyptic metropolis, and the care that went into sketching the setting pays off when the city devolves into an all-out warzone in the film’s final act. “Death Cure” can certainly fall victim to overkill – the climax drags out several scenes longer than it has to; the thunderous sound design grows deadening with one explosion after another – and there are more than a few key plot turns that seem to have lost some important context in the transition to the screen. But damned if Ball doesn’t pull off some impressive firefights and last-minute escapes once the action gets humming. “The Maze Runner” was Ball’s first film, and his ability to craft comprehensible setpieces has steadily improved throughout the trilogy. So too have the performances. Salazar once again proves herself to be an action hero in the making, given much more to do here than in “The Scorch Trials,” while Gillen hones his previously ridiculous antagonist into a properly hissable villain. O’Brien – who, to be fair, was rarely asked to do more than look alternately determined and terrified as he dodged countless terrors in the previous films – has noticeably matured as an actor here, and he sells the film’s emotional beats with a good deal of charisma. Brodie-Sangster has his moments, and Scodelario manages to get across a character of more complicated motivations than one usually sees in films of this ilk. Ironically, this cast has finally started to gel into a group you wouldn’t mind spending time with, just as they’re preparing to say goodbye. Well, better late than never.
Halfwaythrough Gail Anderson-Dargatz's debut novel, The Cure for Death by Lightning, I flipped to the publication data expecting to confirm my suspicions that the author was born sometime around the Great Depression.She wasn't. Entering the world in 1963, Anderson-Dargatz is a contemporary of Douglas Coupland and the Gen-X set.
The Death CureThe Maze Runner 3by James Dashner My rating 3 / 5Genre YA dystopian Spoiler notice The following review may contain some spoilers for the previous books in the series, The Maze Runner & The Scorch Trials. The first thought I had after I finished reading this book was, “Eh.” And in a lot of ways, that accurately sums up my thoughts on it. It was…okay. Not terrible better than book 2, but not great either. The answers in this book only solidified my theory that Dashner did not have the trilogy planned out when he wrote the first book and didn’t really know where to go from the maze. The reasoning behind all of the trials and “variables” was mediocre at best. Terminology was strange and didn’t always make sense like “killzone”, and in the end, most of what was going on was not any more grand, exciting, or surprising than everything I guessed at along the way. The ending was more of what I would call a “non-ending.” Not satisfying in any way. The characters didn’t get much better in this book. The only character I really liked throughout the series was shafted in this book. Teresa was even more pointless in this book than in the previous. And I seriously don’t get any kind of a feel for Brenda. So many people like her, but she seems fairly lifeless to me. And something she said near the beginning of this book, now that I think of it, makes no real sense and barely came into play. So in the end, would I recommend this series? No. Not to adult readers, at least. Maybe teenagers get more out of it, I don’t know. It seems like it’s one of those that you either love or just don’t care for at all. I liked the first book, but the rest of the series didn’t deliver on that set-up. And I have no desire to read the two prequel books. Find out more about The Death Cure See what I’m reading next. If you’ve read this book, or read it in the future, feel free to let me know what you think!
JamesDashner's Maze Runner novels introduce the idea that humanity is subject to a plague - known as the Flare, and only a few born among us are 'immune' to the disease; those who remain will die and become a Crank - a zombie.. A company known as WCKD are attempting to use the immune children to create a serum that will serve as a vaccine to protect against the Flare.
FilmReview: 'Maze Runner: The Death Cure' Reviewed at 20th Century Fox Studios, January 16, 2018. Production: A 20th Century Fox release of a Gotham Group, Temple Hill Entertainment, Oddball
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