“Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials” is the continuing adventures of Thomas and his friends in yet another dystopian future, this time set in a world that appears to have been burned to death by the sun (or what we call, Arizona). Did you want to see another film in which a ruined future is run by an evil entity which can only be brought down by the chosen one and his/her teenage friends, but only after several films which have no endings and instead only cliffhangers to questions no one cares about? Because boy oh boy do we have yet another one of these movies for you.
Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) wakes up to find himself in the hands of an organization hiding away deep in some giant warehouse or mountain or something, and he is reunited with his friends in a facility housing dozens of other teenagers. The one thing all these kids have in common is their immunity to some disease, as well as their dopiness when they blindly believe that this company simply wants to send them to some far away island where they can live out their days in paradise. Doesn’t that sound a lot like when your parents told you that your family pet was sent to a sweet farm upstate? Only Thomas and one other kid seem to question the motives of this company, and they set out to, yes you guessed it, save the day for everyone by exposing the company.Continue Reading …