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“This is crazy, Thomas!” grizzled rebel leader Vince (Barry Pepper) yells over the rumbling motor of his off-road truck as he and the aforementioned Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) peel across dusty brushland toward the crackerjack train heist that opens Maze Runner: The Death Cure.

Things stay at that same yelling! punching! and jumping! pace for the next two-and-a-half hours in this, the final installment of the Maze Runner trilogy—the dystopian teen series that introduced a ragtag group of murdering (and murdered) teenage boys to a huge, dangerous maze in The Maze Runner (2014), pitted those boys against a desert full of angry, virus-infected zombies in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015), and concludes with the now-hardened murder-teens executing a seat-of-their-pants assault on the stronghold of scientists who have been experimenting on them!