Maze Runner: The Death Cure’s four biggest problems

Can anyone really tell us much about any of the characters in Maze Runner: The Death Cure?

This hurts to say, but there probably should have been a fourth movie added to the trilogy. Or maybe the first Maze Runner should have been about 4-5 hours long. The reason why is obvious: the character development is abysmal.

Other than Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), the characters are so minimally defined they barely need names. There’s the eyebrow kid (Will Poulter), the token black guy (Dexter Darden), the traitor (Kaya Scodelario), and the guy who looks like a discount DJ Qualls (Thomas Brodie-Sangster). The only character whose name is really easy to remember is Minho, but that’s only because he was taken in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, and is the default damsel in distress for Maze Runner: The Death Cure. Oh, and the fact that his name appears roughly 900 times in the script.

There are a few newish characters, namely Walton Goggins as “incredibly disfigured, necrotic resistance leader,” but absolutely no background is provided on his character. Incognito status quo.