Scoledario, on the other hand, may be a fine actress but doesn’t get any opportunity to prove it. It’s just that his intensity is like a low-wattage lamp compared to the brighter-burning bulbs of some of his fellow cast members.
It’s not that he’s bad he works hard to bring intensity to his role. Luckily bolstered by strong supporting turns from Ameen, Poulter and others, O’Brien is nevetheless the kind of bland, pre-fab teen idol sort we’ve come to expect from endless MTV and CW fare. That’s the movie’s biggest flaw its second largest is its male and female leads.
MAZE RUNNER MOVIE
Dashner has written two follow-up books that 20 th Century Fox would love to turn into films as well, and the result is that The Maze Runner’s final 20 minutes or so retroactively make the rest of the movie feel like one long trailer. The story starts to run out of steam in the film’s final stretch, just as some of its questions are being answered, only because The Maze Runner cannot work its way past the same problem that befalls so many in its genre: it has to set up a sequel and therefore cannot complete the story in a way that is both satisfying and dramatically coherent. His memories begin to return as well, along with visions of some sort of reseach facility and a girl (Kaya Scodelario) - the same girl who is shortly transported to the Glade with a note indicating that there will be no further deliveries.
Inevitably - and perhaps predictably - Thomas is drawn to the Maze and becomes obsessed with delving into its mysteries. An elite group called Maze Runners send two young men into the Maze every day to explore, map and hopefully solve it without getting attacked by its biomechanical sentinels known as Grievers. The boys are trapped there, but have established a relatively benign Lord of the Flies-like community and a chain of command under the leadership of Alby (the excellent Aml Ameen). The Glade is bordered by enormous, unclimbable walls, two of which open every morning and allow access to the Maze, the massive labyrinth that surrounds the Glade, until sundown when the walls slam shut again. His memories wiped, the boy - who eventually recalls that his name is Thomas - finds himself in the Glade, a pastoral enclave populated by young men of varying ages, all of whom arrived there the same way, one every 30 days.
Dark, mostly gripping and generally well-acted, with a plot that supplies a lot more suspense and mystery than many of its ilk, it is an entertaining and mostly solid sci-fi outing that is hobbled towards the end by problems endemic to its genre.īased on James Dashner’s novel, the movie opens in some sort of cage/elevator in which a young man played by Dylan O’Brien ( Teen Wolf) abruptly awakens as the box rattles to an unknown destination above. The Maze Runner, thankfully, is not one of those. The last few years have been littered with the corpses of a number of failed adaptations ( The Mortal Instruments, The Host, etc.) that not only bombed at the box office but were simply wretched movies to actually sit through. The Maze Runner is the latest film to be based on a young adult book - specifically one set in a dystopian future or alternate reality - that strives to reach the heights of success scaled by The Hunger Games.
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