The Maze Runner is the latest young adult fiction to be adapted for the big screen. Ever since the box office success of Harry Potter and Twilight, we now seem to have an endless supply of YA novels being turned into movies, and this is a fairly average example.
It follows Thomas a young man who wakes up with no memory of his past in an elevator, at the top is the glade, an area in the middle of a vast maze with seemingly no way out.
As the film progresses towards it's conclusion, and set-up for the second film, it begins to make a bit of sense, but for the first hour it is very confused. It may help to have had some more information at the outset, and I think that now we know some of what is going on, this will only aid the second movie.
The stand out performance for me is that of Will Poulter who steals the show, but his performance alone does not make up for the wooden acting of others.
I get the feeling the 2nd film will work a bit better 5/10
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