Rental Review - The Maze Runner
The Maze Runner (2014), PG-13, 113 minutes - I missed this film when it came out last fall. It was released just before our move, and while I was able to find time for other new releases such as Gone Girl and Birdman, this just wasn't as much of a priority for me at the time. Last week I finally had the chance to give it a watch and I was actually pleasantly surprised by this adaptation of James Dashner's YA novel of the same name. The Maze Runner - like many sci-fi YA stories being adapted to film these days - is based in a dystopian future. The difference being that the post-apocalyptic state of the world is due to a natural disaster (the sun scorched the Earth, leaving the majority of it uninhabitable). We're thrown right into the chaos along with Thomas (Dylan O'Brien), who finds himself left with a 'community' of young men in a place referred to as The Glade with no memory of who he is or why he's there. The Glade is a habitable piece of land ...