Review of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) by Zenmaste — 20 Sep 2015

Overall this is a good movie. It was a very fun and exhilarating movie experience. I thought the acting was great and they have done a really good job of developing the most important characters from the story.

Now here comes the "but". If you are a huge fan of the book and you get upset and wild when they do not follow the storyline then I would recommend not going to see this. Rather than make this it's own unique idea they try to make this movie a version of World War Z meets Hunger Games.

They make the cranks out complete zombies when that is not at all what they are. And right from the beginning the way they enter the Scorch is completely different then the story. There are characters with them throughout the whole thing that should not be and at the end of it is so completely off base from the original story I honestly have no idea where they are going to go with the next movie.

Also there are characters that need to be immune to make the end game of the entire book series storyline and in this movie they made them not immune. Again I will say this is a very enjoyable movie on its own just in the context of the entire story as told by the books it is completely off track and doing its own thing.