The first part of the story of the adventures of the protagonist walled up in a confined space, Thomas and his team, entitled "The Maze Runner" with a modest budget of $ 34 million more than paid off at the box office, earning 10 times more. Despite a moderate IMDb rating of 6.80, the film received three prizes from MTV's flagship youth movie awards and carte blanche for the production of sequels. By the way, the Fox film studio initially planned to solve the issue of launching the production of the sequel based on the results of the first movie rental, but later it approved the start of the “Fire Test” filming process two weeks before the world distribution. So the sequel appeared - the film "The Maze Runner 2".
Error handling
After the release of the original tape, the director of the debutant Wes Ball received many cool remarks, which prompted the visionary to conscientiously do the work on the mistakes in the sequel “The Maze Runner 2”. The reviews of filmmakers emphasize that in the 2015 film he did not go on about the writer James Dashner and tried to create a relatively logical post-apocalyptic blockbuster. Screenwriter T. S. Nulin significantly worked on the novel, as a result, the picture looks like a fascinating adventure action. But the creators still could not please critics, the tape has ratings - IMDb: 6.30, on the Rotten Tomatoes website - 63% (taking into account 143 reviews). “Maze Runner 2” received mixed reviews from professional reviewers, and positive reviews from ordinary people, especially young people. Ahead of the events, it can be assumed that the 3rd part of “The Maze Runner”, created by the same Ball, which will be released in September 2017, created regardless of these indicators, will be a successful conclusion to the trilogy.
3D fun guaranteed
Despite the restrained reviews, filmmakers of all stripes noted the significant dignity of the sequel - entertainment and inexorable action, so the viewer is guaranteed 3D pleasure while watching. The narration is built successfully, without depressing sagging. The main characters, familiar to the viewer from the first part, fall, as they say, from the fire and into the fire. During new adventures, heroes stumble not only on fast and extremely aggressive zombies, but also on new colorful characters. For example, the charming and sinister Jenson played by Aidan Gyllen, and the unexpectedly intelligent leader of the bandits Jorge performed by Giancarlo Esposito. These characters were recognized as adorning the painting “The Maze Runner 2”. Reviews about their acting are extremely laudatory. Actress Patricia Clarkson, the performer of the role of the head of the POROK Ava Page, was awarded all sorts of praises.
No heart to heart talk
The sequel has so many heroes, new information, a constant change of locations that it rushes like a locomotive, while, despite an impressive timing of 131 minutes, it practically leaves no time for heart-to-heart talk and character development. This is the main difference between Test by Fire and the first film, which caused spectator interest precisely in the evolution of the relationship between the characters. Therefore, experts after viewing the picture "The Maze Runner 2" wrote reviews perplexed, asking why the creators of the tape decided that countless action scenes and a detailed acquaintance with all aspects of the post-apocalyptic world are more significant than the development of the characters of key characters.
The perfect cocktail for the youth audience
“Running in the Maze 2” (release date - September 17, 2015) is the middle of the epic trilogy. In the first film, the heroes wandered in a closed, artificially created world, meeting only silent robots, in the second part, the creators tried to demonstrate how the world really works and which fractions in it are fighting. And as the reviews say, "Maze Runner 2" completely coped with this task. Powerfulness, richness, tense atmosphere, an abundance of unpredictable plot twists and rare, but appropriate jokes do not allow the beholder to think about the one-sidedness of the script. What will surprise the third part - time will tell.