Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials

maze runner 2, now with more running. seriously, there is a lot of running in this movie, literal, boring running and climbing. worse yet, there are endless "come on!", "go on!", "go!", "almost there!" exclamations. it's very video game npcs, filling the extended running time with this repetitive chatter. also like a video game is the entire structure of the movie, level after level with various terrains and challenges, but all maze-like, tenuously connected only by plot design. the video game feel is not helped by characters having endless stamina, resources, resistance to pain, injury, read more

the franchise challenge - the maze runner the birth date challenge  scorch trials: unfortunately i ended up watching this spread over 3 days which made it feel a little disjointed so im not sure if what i say now is a true reflection of the film. look it was grand and i would watch it again. i never got to read the 2nd book so what was going was new to me. teresa, fuck you but i did see it kind of coming. we also negotiate thomass big reveal which i think well agree was obvious as well. the action was decent as was the progression of the story. lets hope there a big pay off with part 3 which... read more

unlike its predecessor, maze runner: the scorch trials suffers greatly from many of the narrative elements that the original did adequately. i wasn't the biggest fan of the first film but i thought it was passable enough as a dystopian ya film. but, that first film had an anchor to the narrative. it had a hook that kept the storytelling interesting enough and that was the maze. this film doesn't have that same luxury and the narrative, for me, started coming apart at the seams immediately once they expanded the universe into something bigger than the maze. i have no experience with the source... read more

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