Saw The Maze Runner series. Again, I'll just review them all in one go because I only have a finite amount of time on this earth and, apart from the first one, they run together. So the first film opens in medias res with the main character guy being delivered into a field with a bunch of other teenage guys (about 50 or so I 'd say?) they are in the middle of a maze that shifts around at night and which is haunted by H R Geiger-esque fish/spider monsters. He is soon followed by a girl with a note: "She's the last one. Ever!" Spooky!
All these boys have amnesia and don't know why they're there. There's small-town politics that happen as the boys jockey for power. Thankfully the film progresses before the boys start messing with the poor solitary girl however. So the first film is all about this maze, okay? And the running of it. It's fun to watch them solve this puzzle and make their way out of the maze (uh ... spoiler alert...) There's a lot of teen melodrama which is stupid and some amount of prevaricating before they start with the running, but all of that is quickly over with.
In the subsequent movies, they apparently depart somewhat from the books with less death-puzzles featured and more investigation into what's going on here anyway. There's zombies and evil corporations (called WCKD, because why not) and Mad Max-style warlords. It's all okay. The second movie is the weakest I think and the first is the strongest. I don't care about the merry band of teenagers saving each other, but I do like seeing people solve puzzles.
I didn't think much of this series. It's not bad, just not as fun as The Hunger Games and it's sort of difficult to sympathize with the main characters. There's worse ways to kill 6 and a half hours.
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