Anti-utopia according to the recipe "Harry Potter" is long over, "Twilight" too, and to mow money from the younger generation somehow necessary. So there are a variety of “Percy Jacksons”, “The Hunger Games” and other successful, and often not so, adaptations of teenage bestsellers.
"Maze Runner" is not much different from other youth dystopias. In the center of the plot is of course an unusual teenager who will solve his teenage problems (friends/enemies/love) in the course of the film, and in the end will save everyone. All this takes place in a world typical of such films, which contains a set of mysterious rules (in this case, a maze), a group of “ordinary” teenagers, one chosen one and an invisible all-powerful government that controls their lives. The only thing that distinguishes this film from its counterparts is the lack of a love line. The girl here is only one, and she appears closer to the middle, when the main character is too busy solving the mysteries of the maze. For good or bad, everyone decides for himself, but in my opinion, the film only wins from the lack of love snot.
What really hurts is the friendship line. At first, the hero wanders around the camp like a somnambulist, and then he suddenly has both devoted friends and sworn enemies. If the line of hostility still somehow develops, then just acquaintances grow into close friends almost instantly.
Like most adaptations of this kind, this film has a lot of illogical things that a person who has not read the book can not understand. The behavior of the characters here is mostly normal. There are a couple of crazy scenes though. For example, the act of the main bad guy in the end caused complete bewilderment - why he wanted to kill the main character, and most importantly, how he got to him, because he did not know the way through the maze, and he had no key. From the outside, it looks like a cheap way to create a dramatic atmosphere. The logic of the most dystopian world is even worse. A group of top scientists from all over the world are spending a lot of money to build an experiment site where a few teenagers, by the way, just guys, have been living peaceful lives for three years and nothing happens to them. The whole maze is set up to kill the person who entered it, a strange way of studying the organism, but no one is going to explain it. The main and only danger of this maze is not particularly intelligent robots. The possibilities of such an arena in the Hunger Games were much more diverse. Well, what kind of virus mows humanity, why these teenagers are not susceptible to it, why it was necessary to arrange a show with suicide – questions from the section “think it yourself”.
Against the background of other teenage dystopias, Maze Runner is not far from the best option. But not the worst. Its plot is standard, the dialogues of the characters are filled with excessive pathos, and the world shown in it is completely unworked. If you have a great love for such films, you can watch it, but it is better to have a quick rewind button at hand.
6 out of 10
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