Just finished watching Death Cure (The Maze Runner finale)

So immediately I will say I'm going to talk about the end of the movie, and if you haven't watched it you really should because whilst I'm hugely disapointed how they ended it, it was still a really well put together movie and worthy of a good audience.

SPOILERS FOLLOW:

So, what went wrong with the ending? Well several things:

1. The killed off all the main WCKD characters, when that didn't really serve any wider message (revenge and karma aside)
2. They ended it, leaving humanity to rott whilst a bunch of lucky people ended up living on an island somewhere whilst the rest of the world was obviously going to shit after they had a definite cure available.
3. Two of the best characters Teresa and Newt die. Now Newt's death was at least heart-warming and had to it some aspect of value, but it was still the wrong choice. To put it another way, it was clearly a choice made to deliberatly go against any expectations, which works only to enfuriate and annoy (as it is transparently the case).
4. They don't have any proper medically trained people on this new world and whilst Thomas's blood holds the secret to the cure, infact only Thomas is actually immune (well Thomas and the girl he saves with a blood transfusion carefully carried out by Teresa who is clearly highly trained). So basically they just migrated the problem to a new place to start bloody over, when they had the basis of the cure to hand back at WCKD labs. I get that most of the people there died in the aftermath, but what a piss poor ending.

So, whilst I did enjoy the film and I felt the actual filming, effects and casting where spot on. The story let it down wildly by obviously TRYING hard to be edgy by bucking expectations. When a film does do the unexpected, it has to be truely unexpected not just inverting the key story points where the joy of the tale come. The redemption of the hero who chooses the wrong side (e.g. Teresa) the narrow survival of the character who held them all together (e.g. Newt). Now, if they needed some surpises they could have put them in better places, like WKCD turning out actually TO be good, or the woman running WCKD turning out to be Thomas's mother (which I sort of suspected to be the case). Though I guess 'Shes your mother' has been done with the oppostite gender famously already lol. Though there was more room for surprises.

Anyway, I felt they botched the ending but due to some bloody good acting and film making it still managed to be a great film! I won't be buying the books though, because I checked online and Tereas also dies in the book (and by the sounds without the great film theatrics).