Directed by Wes Ball
Starring
Dylan O'Brien as Thomas
Kaya Scodelario as Teresa
Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Newt
Will Poulter as Gally
Ki Hong Lee as Minho
Aml Ameen as Alby
Blake Cooper as Chuck
Randall D. Cunningham as Clint
Joe Adler as Zart
Thomas wakes from a troubled sleep to discover he is inside what appears to be an ancient freight elevator traveling up at a fair rate.
When the car halts Thomas is lifted unceremoniously out to discover that not only does he not have a memory (No one has any memory of the past) but he now is in the hands of rag tag group of young males living in a small "Glade" which is surrounded by impossibly high walls, punctuated by equally high "gates".
Each morning a gate/door opens to a "maze" then closes at night. During the day "Runners " are dispatched into the maze hopefully to return before nightfall and the closing of the Maze gates. Because at night horrific sounds can be heard from a beast never seen but called Grievers.
The plot, substantially, appears to be the "Gladers" finding a way out, through the Maze. Towards the climax of the film, it is revealed that all is not as it seems and the boys are in fact subjects. Which now mean the balance of the movie is escape.
Maze Runner you would think would be edge of the seat excitement. But that is not entirely the case. This movie has got to be one of the most derivative movies I have ever seen! The pacing is woefully slow for a film that really needs to blast along at supersonic speeds. This was movie making by construction set. All the director's and writer's fav scenes stitched together.
My movie guy says he would give it 6 out of 10, I thought that harsh until I watched it.... I mean it isn't a bad film, but there was a reason it went to DVD so fast, it is just mindless entertainment. Heavy on the mindless, bit lighter on entertainment.
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