Director Wes Ball fails to generate any emotional resonance with this premise, though some of the action sequences are exciting.

The intrigue of the first part, the fascinating design of the maze and the interplay between the characters trapped in the Glade have been eroded over the subsequent parts to end in a most unsatisfactory way.

It's efficiently done and there moments in it that are arresting... [but] have we now done with this particular cycle of films? Because I think we all have.

Both formally and narratively, The Death Cure feels like a patchwork, Frankensteined together from better material.