The Grievers are now replaced by hungrier and grotesquely more vicious Cranks, and the obstacles are updated, to provide more hair raising creeps. That being said, there are still some few things to commend, like the fact it has retained, if not improved, its scares and thrills. That's maybe the problem for someone who hasn't read the book like me, ever loaded with 'how's and 'why's, which this sequel seems uninterested in answering, until the final chapter. The marathon extravaganza hampers the characters to fully connect with each other, and engage in a conversation, lengthy enough to help us understand.
It lacks genuine emotions, and there are barely plot developments well- knitted enough to spark interest. See, that's what sends this sequel spiraling down from the heights the first film has soared past in 2014. But that's just a bump, because as soon as alliances are formed and a hint of the government's agenda, is revealed, it's marathon-time again. After seemingly endless cat and mouse chases, you'd be thankful to see them stumble upon a resistance movement, giving them a few moments to rest (that gives you a moment to rest from following them). What even worse, are Cranks, James Dashner's version of zombies, joining the pursuit. 'The Gladers', still led by Thomas (Dylan O'Brien), are now on the run from the forces of WCKD, the mysterious organization that placed them in the Glade. That doesn't necessarily makes the film bereft of sense and extremely difficult to follow, but that fact itself, hinders the proceedings from delivering a comprehensible narrative. This year, 'The Scorch Trials', its sequel, keeps some of the original beats of its predecessor, but it eventually falls into the scope of the overly familiar trope that the first film has defiantly avoided, which is a bit disappointing, considering the riveting buildup they've pulled off with the first film. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials opens in UK and US cinemas from 10th September, 2015.Last year's 'The Maze Runner' was en route to a non-conformist course off the young adult/post-apocalyptic sub-genre, delivering less familiar but appealing deviations from the more recognizable standards of the category. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials review by Paul Heath, September 2015. Two thirds in, there’s a ‘suspense-filled sequence that is a blatant rip-off of the only decent scene in Spielberg’s The Lost World: Jurassic Park (it involves glass), and is a perfect example of the regurgitated, very-average pop-apocalyptic content on offer throughout. While action-packed, pretty much from the off, The Scorch Trials fails to captivate with the set-pieces, which aren’t anything that we’ve seen before. It’s quite outlandish to make such a claim, but this is an action film that has to engross for a whopping 130 minutes. While I’m sure that this film will indeed appeal to the intended market, I found the countless action sequences cumbersome, laborious, tedious and utterly boring. However, when the plot starts to evolve, and the new many action sequences unleashed, this ‘ 28 Days Later-like’ sequel fails to deliver on so many levels. The opening scenes which are set within the colony where the Glazers are fed, cleaned, clothed and calmed from their previous adventures are involving, with enough intrigue of what’s to come.
The film starts off with the best intentions quite clearly a new chapter in the story of this young group of survivors who are rescued by a mysterious team of resistance fighters, led by Game Of Thrones alumni Aiden Gillen as Jensen. Led by Dylan O’Brien‘s Thomas, accompanied by returning Glaze members Newt ( Thomas Brodie-Sangster) and Minho ( Ki Hong Lee), The Scorch Trials is a very lengthy adaptation of the novel of the same name, once again directed by the supremely talented Wes Ball. The Scorch Trials, the middle installment in the trio of books from the author, is an action-adventure quite clearly aimed at the young adult/ teen market.
#The scorch trials series
I was a fairly late-comer to the series of movies which have been adapted from James Dashner’s novels.
After completing the maze in the first movie, Thomas and his crew venture into ‘the Scorch,’ a desolate landscape filled with many obstacles, and indeed many undesirable characters, most of whom are infected with the deadly disease known as ‘The Flare.’ Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials sees Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) and the other ‘Glazers’ facing the organisation known as WCKD head-one. In the next installment of the story, called Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, which is released in cinemas this week, and is based on the novel by James Dashner. The Maze Runner gained a decent amount of commercial acclaim back in 2013. Pin Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials review: Tedious, utterly boring and very, very long.
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