Review of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) by Nicholasbert — 20 Nov 2015

What is it these days about zombies? About viruses and cures? If you only play the audio of The Scorch Trials you'd think you are watching the Walking Dead. Personally, this film is just riding the wave of all possible trends: the young adults, the zombies, the post apocalyptic world... the only one that's missing is the love story, which I believe will spring in full bloom in the next chapter.

The film is utterly disconnected from the first one, and it doesn't feel at all like a continuation. It would have been okay if they released it after a couple of months, but it's been a full year, and the material in the Maze Runner was so boring and cliché I was forgetting it while I was watching it. Granted I have a bias against these kinds of genres, and an even bigger one against sequels, but The Scorch Trials relies on some very weak premises and seems to be going towards very weak conclusions as well.