![]() ![]() Whiplash.Įssentially, we have a few hundred pages of running, panicking, poor decision making and filler. What the mess is happening to this plot? Instead of a giant maze, we are faced with the zombie apocalypse and a desert. It was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. “Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?” Thomas's innermost thoughts have this je ne sais quoi. The lyrical genius of Dashner brings out such heart-wrenching emotions that I often have to pause to collect myself. If someone figures it out, please tell me.ĮDIT: P.S I think I get that Frypan is a nickname now thanks. He's also about as smart as that which I don't understand since all the Gladers were suppose to be extremely smart children who where put in the maze from the last book because of their high IQs.Īpart from the few inconsistencies in this book, the one thing that never made any sense to me was that if everyone in there is suppose to be named after super smart person (like Isaac Newton, etc), then who is Frypan named after? This compared to other characters like Thomas who had about as much personality and emotion as a burnt piece of rat meat on a stick. This is mostly referring to Newt and Minho since they seemed the most real and fleshed out. I gave this book 2 stars only because James Dashner was able to create such real characters by giving them actual human qualities. ![]() Then try to tell me you didn't notice it.Īlthough this book was fast passed, a lot of it was filler and this book could really just have been shrunken into about 100 pages at the max. If this didn't annoy you at all, reread this book (NOT RECOMMENDED) and realize that this dude spent most of his life passed out. ![]() That’s especially true when it comes to the strong women who play crucial roles in the “Maze Runner” universe, from the villainous Clarkson to the virtuous Salazar to Kaya Scodelario as Thomas’ would-be love interest, whose inner conflict leaves her facing tough decisions somewhere in the middle.During this entire book, I counted how many times Thomas ended up passing out or sleeping either at the end of a chapter or paragraph and did you want to know what the finally count was?Ģ9 times this guy blacked out!! Out of 360 pages, Thomas left you with the cliff hanger of "and finally he slept" 29 times. They are overqualified for this noisy nonsense.īut they also bring an effortless multiculturalism to these movies that I’ve always appreciated, and they all get a moment to shine. They’re mostly character actors with intriguing screen presences and captivating faces: Rosa Salazar, Giancarlo Esposito, Barry Pepper, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Ki Hong Lee, Dexter Darden and an almost unrecognizable Walton Goggins. The man at the center, O’Brien, remains hardworking and blandly handsome, but at least he’s got compelling figures surrounding him to help him sneak inside and burn it all down. (No, really, that’s what it’s called.) Simultaneously, they’re still rounding up all the remaining children and performing experiments on them to see who is immune and can provide a serum to cure this decimated world of the zombie plague. (With an acronym like that, what else could they be?)Ī team of scientists led by the coolly minimalist Ava Paige ( Patricia Clarkson) and a team of law enforcement agents led by the relentlessly evil Janson ( Aidan Gillen) maintain control of the imposing Last City. Our hero, the obligatory YA Chosen One, Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), and his crew must free their friends from the clutches of the bad guys at WCKD. Still, there’s no time to worry about that. Nowlin, he drops us right into the action-there’s no “Previously on `The Maze Runner …’”-so if you’ve forgotten this place and these characters, you may feel a little lost. Working from a script by returning writer T.S. You certainly would never want to spend any time in the Glade, or the Scorch, or any of the adjacent, post-apocalyptic hellholes, but Ball’s films make you feel as if you’ve done just that. He’s directed all three installments in the franchise-including 2014’s “ The Maze Runner” and the 2015 follow-up “The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials”-and what separates his films from the overcrowded field of teen dystopian dramas is his visceral sense of space and energy.īall’s action sequences have a tangible, accessible quality about them, which is especially true in his doozy of an opening sequence: a 10-minute car chase/train robbery across the desert that’s got a grit, intensity and rough-hewn aesthetic reminiscent of “ Mad Max: Fury Road.” And as is the case in all the “Maze Runner” movies-especially the original-the sound design is powerful and immersive. But come on.įor a while, though, Wes Ball’s film moves really well. It takes a long time to find a death cure. ![]()
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