The remaining Gladers trek onward on their mission to seek refuge with the fabled guerilla resistance group in the mountains called the Right Arm Camp. The teenagers later find that not all of them are immune to the virus, resulting to the tragic death of one of them.Īction-packed sequel: Led by Thomas (Dylan O'Brien), the Gladers escape from the wicked World Catastrophe Killzone Department (WCKD) in a scene from Maze Runners: The Scorch Trials.(Courtesy of Gotham Group) Then, the zombie-like terror begins, as the Cranks inside the mall wake up. They survive a raging sandstorm and find an abandoned mall, where they can collect some clothes and water.
They are now in the Scorch, a futuristic badland burnt by solar flares, but at least they have a good start. Realizing that Janson is in league with the WCKD, Thomas and his sidekick Minho (Lee Ki-hong) leads a jailbreak of the Gladers ' impressively making their way out despite a group of armed soldiers guarding the bunker. Thomas and loner Aris (Jacob Lofland), who arrived from another maze, found out that the selected boys and girls are strung up in a laboratory with tubes slowly draining their immunity fluids. The teenagers have to undergo exhaustive medical testing and are interrogated by Janson.Įvery dinner, Janson will give some of them 'promotions' to start new lives outside the bunker. However, they have little freedom in the bunker. The soldiers flew them away to a bunker run by Janson (Aidan Gillen), who provides food and warm beds to all the maze survivors. In the previous movie, the teenagers learned that the quasi-governmental scientific agency wanted to harness their immunity to the Flare, a virus that turns humans into zombie-like creatures. The sequel picks up where Maze Runner left off, as masked soldiers save Thomas (Dylan O'Brien) and his fellow Gladers from the WCKD (World Catastrophe Killzone Department), which had erased their memories and put them into a gruesome maze with deadly creatures.
Some of the saga readers will be surprised about how much director Wes Ball and scriptwriter TS Nowlin deviate from James Dashner's best-selling post-apocalyptic young-adult book. The sequel, however, barely delivers the strong drama its predecessor did. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the second installment of the youth-oriented dystopian saga, gives a great ride through zombie-like horror, which may remind you of The Walking Dead. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials may bring a higher intensity of adrenaline rush and thrills, but it lacks the strong drama of its prequel about this dystopian saga.Īfter breaking out of a massive labyrinth inhabited by deadly hordes of giant biomechanical spiders, Thomas and his friends, known as the Gladers, face a grimmer world that brings them constant adrenaline-packed chases and thrills throughout the movie's 131 minutes.
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