The Maze Runner James Dashner

The Maze Runner, another in the dystopian revolution book to movie adaptations. The book itself has its flaws- way too many questions with no answers, at all, and a lot of unnecessary deaths, and (even after looking up the explanation of the book) it just doesn’t make sense. Well, take a convoluted book, adapt it to the big screen with even less explanation than the book, and you have The Mazerunner movie. First, the movie had adult men playing teenagers, which is always ridiculous, no matter how you spin it. Then, there is little explanation as to what's going on, either for the main character or the audience. When the main character tries to figure out where he is after getting amnesia, no one tells him any information. So of course he gets curious and does stupid stuff to try to figure out what's going on. And, according to the other citizens in the glade, he’s the only one to be curious??? It really frustrates me when characters are valued for characteristics that are human nature, like in Divergent. The explanation for how the maze works didn’t make sense either. Not only did they change it from the book to make it more complicated, they also made it completely impossible to understand. The whole escape was actually really overcomplicated. In the book, everyone escapes through an invisible door. I thought it was kind of dumb, but then the movie changed it to something even worse. A series of pointless doors that really shouldn’t be there that lead to the labs. I prefer the invisible door. The movie also cut out the mind reading, which i’m glad. It didn’t seem very believable in the books. There remained, however, all the pointless killings and deaths of the teenagers. In the series, I believe the challenges were meant to narrow down the group of teenagers down to the strongest in order to create a vaccine, but what if the strongest died arbitrarily in the maze? what if those who survived did so only by pure luck? pointlessly killing all those kids doesn’t make sense, at all. The story seems purposely bleak and I’m not into stories that get the majority of it’s thrills from shock factor. It’s also quite the sausage fest for no reason. There could easily have been as many girls as there were guys, and why send up one last girl to the group of guys. To disrupt them? I don’t really understand why WICKED was so obsessed with destroying it’s last hope. Honestly, I like the actors even if they were too old, and the movie was okay, but considering where the story is goin, I don’t think I can recommend it.