However, this constant high-paced action does come at a cost – there’s less time made available for character development, a thing this movie sorely needed. The Maze Runner was a slow-cooking adventure movie whereas Scorch Trials is a sizzling rough-and-tumble action movie. I love the departure in style this movie makes from the first. The action sequences are well-crafted with quite a few moments of fun. The characters are constantly in motion and this gives the movie a high-octane, heart-racing pace. There’s a new threat every five minutes in this movie and there’s hardly any time to catch your breath. This movie is aptly named because the characters in this movie spend the majority of its runtime (haha, see what I did there?), running. Luckily, this movie doesn’t give you too much time to think about how ridiculous its plot is because it’s so action-packed. Instead of a lab with scientists and doctors…WHAT? I’m still so confused about that how does putting children in a maze, help you understand their biochemistry? WHAT? So once again, I’m hoping the next movie in this series – The Death Cure – will provide clarity. The children who were put in the maze are all immune to the virus and WCKD wants to ascertain the basis of their immunity. ![]() From the first movie we know that the human race has been all but wiped out by the Flare Virus. For all we learnt over the two movies there are still certain elements of it that: 1. The premise of this movie and its predecessor still trouble me. Thomas and his Gladers escape the facility and must now face the dangers of The Scorch – a post-apocalyptic wasteland that has new and terrifying enemies, and not all of them are human. Thomas doesn’t trust Jansen and after some investigation finds out that Jansen is working for WCKD and that Ava Paige is still alive. Okay, basic plot: after escaping The Maze, Thomas and the other Gladers find refuge in a military institution run by a man called Mr Jansen. Unfortunately, I felt more confused after watching this movie then I did before. ![]() The first movie had me asking a lot of questions and I was hoping that this movie would answer a few of them. I think it offered something different from the traditional YA movies that are flooding the market and I’m quite a fan of Dylan O’Brien. I actually enjoyed the first Maze Runner. Perhaps the third film in the franchise, The Death Cure (due out February 2017), will prevent total trilogy meltdown.So I watched The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials, Still, compared to its rivals in the Sky Bet Championship League Table of young adult adaptations, it's much closer to promotion than the likes of Beautiful Creatures, The Golden Compass and – speak not its name – The Mortal Instruments: City of Bones. If you're not, then this Episode II may feel empty and unsatisfying. If you're willing to ignore the whys and hows – or happen to have read all of James Dashner's books in advance – The Scorch Trials rattles along like a wooden rollercoaster you're pretty sure isn't going to break halfway up a loop. "Why are there mazes?", "Why do some kids have their memory erased?" and "Will anyone say 'Scorchio!'?" are just a few of The Scorch Trials' many unanswerable headscratchers. The final reveal is in the final film, and until then, you have to bob along in the white water and enjoy the ride. ![]() Like the Divergent series, the Maze Runner franchise is undermined by its more-mysterious-than-thou premise. Beset on all sides by victims of the zombie-like Rage virus, Ball has our young heroes dash through approximately 18 levels of The Last Of Us before they get a decent nap, by which point you'll want one too. With its young leads – Dylan O'Brien's Thomas, Thomas Brodie-Sangster's Newt, Ki Hong Lee's Minho and Kaya Scodelario's Teresa – hot footing it out of a maze in the last film, "The Gladers" (as they're called) are offered mere minutes of respite in a sinister medical facility before pegging it into the post-apocalyptic wasteland.ĭirector Wes Ball returns for the follow-up, delivering a slicker and more confident product, full of grander set-pieces and tougher themes. ![]() This is despite there being no mazes, no trials and almost nothing getting scorched. The methadone to Hunger Games' heroin, The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is the sequel to 2014's genuinely-not-bad The Maze Runner, which is itself also genuinely-not-bad. Before The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 arrives in November, here's another fix of dystopian sci-fi action based on a series of young adult novels.
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