This weekend in the middle of doing the same every day I did have the oportunity to get off early enough of my Job for go to the cinema, and the only movie that was available in that time was Maze Runner I tough that The Gladers are likeable characters, but they aren’t developed much and are too similar to familiar character archetypes. Thomas is an OK character, to be honest Newt and Alby are more interesting than he was. This is probably due to Thomas having no memories, and most of his scenes are ones that set up the series mythology and ones where he’s in fight and chase scenes. The rest of the Gladers don’t do much or are there only to advance the plot of the movie. Thomas and the “Gladers” rush from one shocking event to the next dangerous chase, all while trying to find a way out of the Maze.
Even though TMR only has a $34 million dollar budget, the movie still looks visually nice. I liked to see the Grievers, the Maze, the Glade, and the Gladers brought to life. To the disappointment of some action, effects-heavy, and the fighting is pretty primitive. But there’s still excitement with the chases from, and the fighting against the Grievers (bio-mechanical lizard/scorpion-like monsters).
The movie ultimately spends too long setting up future installments than fleshing out the characters, but it still has enough things going on for you not to get too bored. I personally think the fight scenes could’ve been better choreographed and more exciting. Also, the characters really could’ve used more development. any way it was more that I expected.
