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Maze Runner The Scorch Trials is based on James Dashners novel 'The Scorch Trials'. Directed by Wes Ball, Maze Runner The Scorch Trials follows Thomas and his fellow Gladers find themselves in trouble after uncovering a diabolical plot from WCKD, the mysterious and powerful organization. Their journey takes them to a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles and crawling with the virus-infected Cranks. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
With minimal plot development and far too much running around in dark corridors, The Scorch Trials has a poor story:filler ratio. And much of what happens is poorly thought-out.
There's much to hold the attention: expertly staged, flashlight-strafed chases; vast ruined cityscapes that channel Inception and Escher; and an imaginative fight sequence that plays out on cracking glass.
An annoying and boring movie, that changed the easy and fun originality of the books without consistency and without any significance. [Full review in Spanish]
Wes Ball keeps the ball rolling at a cracking pace, veers into horror territory with gruesome zombie action and, though the characters don't really develop, elicits genuine performances from his young cast.
There's no flare of strangeness or freshness here, just a pile of images and ideas stolen from smarter people's second-hand bin banged into each other for a numbingly dull 132 minutes.
It's exciting but, there is very little depth or poignancy to the story and while the movie will probably appeal to the fans of the first film, there's not a lot of reason to believe it will convince the rest who are new to the happenings.
If it sounds like there isn't an original thought in The Scorch Trials' scripted head, you're right. But at least you won't be smacking yourself in the head trying to figure out what's going on.