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| Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) Free Download Now |
After having escaped the Maze, the Gladers now face a new set of challenges on the open roads of a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles.
Director: Wes Ball.
Writers: T.S. Nowlin (screenplay), James Dashner (novel).
Stars: Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster.
Storyline
In this next chapter of the epic "Maze Runner" saga, Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD's vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all. Written by 20th Century Fox.
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A feel-good Running man movie
20 October 2015 | by tim-nieuwenhuis (Netherlands) – See all my reviews
I watched it like, 20 minutes ago, so this review is as fresh as i can make it :) To say it very short: It was a feel-good movie, that should have been given a different name.
As is traditional with my reviews, i'll start with the good sides of the movie.
The movie took little to no time to develop. Within the first 10 minutes stuff already goes down. Within 15 minutes, sh*t has already hit the fan. So you don't need to wait for stuff to get interesting.
There were a lot of moments that were really cool. Those feel-good moments, where you can sit there and think: "Ah that was cool!" "WOW did you see that?" "Oh man, that character was bad-ass there!" Those kind of moments. There were plenty of them so unless you have no feeling of suspense, you won't walk out of the theater without anything to remember.
The acting overall was also pretty nice. Oscar-worthy? No, hell no. But it was good nonetheless. The one actor/actress did it better than the other but i cannot complain.
The visual effects and make-up all looked pretty darn good so you are also in for a visual ride. Everything did look like 50-shades of brown, but since the whole movie takes place in a desert-like environment, you can't really argue with that.
Now for the bad parts. I'll try to keep everything a secret and not reveal anything.
There were too many moments that were basically the same: They go to this place, find out stuff is bad, and have to run. And this goes on 6 times in a row. Why do they call it the Scorch Trials? Call it the Running Men.
As i said before, there are a lot of feel-good moments in the film. But in between those moments, there is not a whole lot to see. This film basically thrives on those moments and tries to keep the scenes between those moments as short as possible.
Since the movie takes no time to develop, there is little to no introduction of characters. Aidan Gillen (Janson) (and Petyr Balish from GoT) has a pretty impact-full role, but gets a 2 minute intro and that is it.
There were also plenty of moments where i thought: "Seriously? Are you kidding?" "Wait what? Do they even....?" I cannot say what those moments exactly were, so sorry for that, but there were plenty of those moments, and unless you are not paying attention, you WILL notice them.
All in all, the movie was entertaining, but very flawed. As i now say for the 6th time, there were a lot of feel-good moments, but also plenty of weird moments, weird choices the characters make, and once again: Thomas is the most important character of them all, and only he can save the day. SERIOUSLY? Why can't this other dude do something? Isn't it so that Thomas is not the only one in the team? Ah, screw it. I'll watch Vikings again.
In total i can give it a 6.5, maybe a 7, but no more than that. I have no idea if the book is any better, so don't judge me for that :)
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