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User Reviews for: The Maze Runner

Lainfan
CONTAINS SPOILERS4/10  9 years ago
Pretty disappointing and crappy movie.

I suspected a casual and fun movie with this one, maybe with some puzzles and an interesting premise. However the movie disappointed from the start.
For a adaptation from a book I sure hope this was a bad one. You get thrown into the middle of a stoy where suddenly all kinds of stuff happens. I hope this wasn't the case in the original work, because it is one of the major flaws of this movie, and could be explained as the cause of many of its other faults.

The acting was luckily pretty ok, but many of the characters don't add to the story at all and are just filling up empty screen. The sound was to cry off as well. Soundtrack was ok, but many scenes had no music and felt like a soap because of it.
I am all for being creative with sound, but this was just done badly.

Since I won't bore you with pages of irrelevant texts, like the movie does, i will just make a list of the cons and pros.

Cons:
- Paced way too fast
- No build up for a climax (the film was more of a constant climax actually)
- Not getting time to get acquainted with the characters, therefore not caring about there faith.
- Very little character development, except maybe for Gally (Will Poulter)
- Stating many things as impossible without many explanation
- Revealing the endgame in the first act of the movie with a flashback/memory which makes the whole movie unnecessary,
- Also making the whole story as predictable as a Japanese train schedule.
- Inappropriate absent of sound
- Too much unimportant characters
- Did we really need another Hunger Games movie?
- etc.

Pros:
- Nice environment
- Funny but cool looking cyborg creatures
- Doesn't need many attention to follow, so you can check your twitter or facebook feed in the meantime.
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Reply by wolfkin
3 years ago
@lainfan FYI the book does open in medias res like the movie. It does work _better_ in the book in part because no you don't have the flashbacks as clear as they are in the movie. But there are other aspects that wouldn't translate as well to the screen which is why I'm sure they added that. I actually liked the Maze Runner book though I think THG (with better characters) and Divergent (with a better world) were the better books (and series). I wasn't as big a fan of the followups. Scorch Trials was ok and Death Cure was so confusing I keep forgetting I actually DID read it.
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