Review of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) by Sethtifer — 17 Sep 2015

This movie is absolutely atrocious. It has no lasting appeal whatsoever. I am a fan of the books, and I fully expect Hollywood to intervene with movies and change it up sometimes. I'll even admit the changes that are made are often for the better. However, this diverted from the source material so harshly It should not even have the Maze Runner tag attached to it.

This movie took an established and original story set to a admittedly generic concept and made it even more generic. This movie is truly just a generic post-apocalyptic zombie movie, which the source material is not. But I'm not just a **** fanboy, I can see what they were trying to make a movie that would more than likely be appealing to a wider audience, but while they set out to make that kind of movie, they failed at even doing that.

The cinematography is horrible, the dialogue is horrible, the story they tried to make is riddled with plot holes and pure exposition, the action scenes are not intense in any way, and the final act is 15 minutes too long. The first movie gave me a shimmer of hope because, even though it diverted heavily from the book, the story it told still had some appeal to it. They have now come to a screeching halt on that account.

If I'm to give this movie a pro? The acting is not half bad. Dylan O' Brian impresses, and his supporting cast is quiet good with a few useless characters strewn throughout. Honestly that's it. I truly can't think any ANYTHING else good to say.

A lot of other movies came out this weekend, like that one were Johnny Depp is actually good. Go see that instead.