The mangled and crumbling high rise buildings and major bridges are very impressive as is the highly guarded medical facility Thomas and his friends are brought to in the beginning of the film. The production design and look of the film is extremely strong, bringing to life up on the big screen the vast, deadly wasteland of the Scorch.
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They don’t believe the army exists, but seeing no other option they decide to follow Thomas and the others to the mountains in the hopes of finding the resistance and eventually reaching a safe sanctuary they can finally call home.īigger with more action and more involved set designs, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is a welcomed improvement over the first film in the series but still suffers from mediocre to unrealistic performances from its young cast. At first, Teresa and Newt are hesitant about the plan. Thomas tells his friends they need to head for the mountains and try to find the resistance fighters who are known as the Red Army. The Gladers struggle to stay clear of WCKD’s searching air machines while also running from the Cranks, a slang term for anyone infected by the virus known as the Flare which makes them similar to the infected in the film 28 Days Later. Remnants of what once was a great city including destroyed buildings, bridges and sewer systems are all that’s left. Finally escaping the medical prison, Thomas, Minho (Ki Hong Lee), Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), Newt ( Thomas Brodie-Sangster), and the rest of the gang must travel across the Scorch, a desolate, dangerous wasteland of what once was civilization. Once Thomas, with the help of a new ally, discovers the terrible truth of what’s in store, they make a break for it with WCKD in close pursuit. The Gladers, as they’re known from the first film, survived and escaped the maze only to end up as guinea pigs in medical trials and tests for WCKD in a new controlled facility.
“The maze is one thing but you kids wouldn’t last one day out in the Scorch,” says Janson (Aidan Gillen) to Thomas ( Dylan O’Brien) as he and his friends are breaking out of the facility they just discovered is being run by the powerful organization known as WCKD in the second installment of the Maze Runner series, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. Thomas (Dylan O’Brien) prepares for battle in ‘Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials’ (Photo © 2015 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation)