The Maze Runner (2014) - Not Seen It All Yet!

★★★☆☆

The maze’s huge, dangerous (since it’s got monsters called Grievers to wipe out anyone trying to escape), and changing every day (so it’s not quite possible to get out of it at all). The runners are kind of obedient and careful, and set up rules for themselves to stay safe and coexist with it. They’re doing fine till a guy named Thomas comes along to want to lead them out of the trap. The setup looks familiar enough. You feel like it’s just an experiment in which everything’s programmed so as to find out something that would help accomplish some big thing. That nothing happens for no reason. Right, here’s one small piece of a big puzzle. Two more pieces are coming. ‘The Maze Runner’ is just part one of a trilogy that well… I’m not so in favor of after all.

Still, the way the story’s told is well paced and intriguing. The action’s breathtaking sometimes, but the ending’s definitely corny and not revealing. You know some are gonna die for real, and some are not. Some will survive no matter what. And I don’t like the idea of Grievers that seems so unnecessary and boring. They should’ve come up with more delicate and deadly concrete traps instead. The characters are forgettable except Thomas that plays like a revolutionary convincing the rest of them to go against whoever or whatever is behind it all, in the hope of being free I guess. But revolution’s not easy. Freedom’s but a big lie. What happens in the next chapter may not be so dumbfounding, but still I’m gonna check it out!

Like it or not, we’re all living in a trap searching for a way out of it, just to get in another trap that we mistake for a breakaway all the time! Sounds pathetic but very true. There’s no way out of it yet until the day we’re finally able to realize that we’re actually part of it and there’s no such a thing as anyone getting out of anything, and that the idea itself of thinking that you’ve realized it is nothing but another trap as well.