Review of The Maze Runner (2014) by Janelle I — 26 Sep 2016

The Maze Runner review.

Exploring the philosophical questions of who am I and how did I get here questions, director of "Maze Runner" Wez Ball worked well to captivate the hearts and minds of many young at heart. By strategically casting familiar faced, "teen wolf" star Dylan O'brien according to many teenaged girls, it is considered a home run.

Intriguing and considered intellectually harrowing, the demonstration of shady W.C.K.D corporation's experiment which in this case, are the teenagers inside the maze demonstrate to what extents people have gone to preserve society. Protagonist Thomas, along with the rest of the teenagers purposely put in the maze is W.C.K.D's experiment in a desperate attempt to find out "what makes them different" and "why they didn't get stung by the "zombie-transforming brain chomping" disease.

In all this, they have no memories of their past lives to survive. Thomas, who is incredibly inquisitive with so much leadership potential leads the teenagers to victory and discovers their purpose towards the end of the film.

The main downfall of the film is that the graphics were a bit out-dated and could've been further improved on.

But with such elaborate characters put in such intriguing situations many parents along with their tweens and teens will thoroughly salvage this modern, dystopian film. Many will love the faced paced course and developed storyline.