Kaya Scodelario Brings Fiance Benjamin Walker To ‘Scorch Trials’ NYC Premiere

They were very strict about littering and don’t take any artefacts… and everyone just takes stuff (anyway).

Lead star Dylan O’Brien, however, is just extremely happy with the fact that the movie keeps viewers guessing. The premise is intriguing, the characters generally engaging and it possesses some depth of emotion. Written by T.S. Nowlin, based on James Dashner’s novel. “We get to have more adults in this movie”.

Dylan O’Brien, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Ki Hong Lee, Kaya Scodelario, and Academy Award nominee Patricia Clarkson returns to the cast.

But getting there may present more danger than what they’re leaving. The sequel picks up immediately after the events in the first film, as Thomas and his fellow Gladers try to survive the Scorch, a desolate, risky landscape, while continuing to battle the W.C.K.D.

Taking shelter from the elements in a buried shopping mall, the group awakens a swarm of vicious zombies-the film calls them “Cranks“, though they’re in no way distinguishable from any of the other zombie hordes that have shuffled across screens over the past decade-who give chase and manage to snag one unlucky Glader. Nonetheless, thinking too hard about the ethicality of these heroes and villains’ actions is to pretend that the filmmakers have done likewise, rather than – as is the case here – merely regurgitated stock formulas and conventions for a new generation of moviegoers. O’Brien brings the necessary earnestness to his part and possesses a good deal of charisma to carry it through.

The Maze Runner-themed spoof is set at the annual festival in Northern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, which aims to be an “experimental art community that celebrates values such as radical self-expression and de-commodification” as described in a recent article on Creativity Online. He crams a lot into a script and at times it shows in the finished project which feels a bit bloated. In “Scorch Trials“, director Wes Ball puts the pedal to the floor in terms of thematics, scope and bombast – everything is faster, bigger and scarier.

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials succeeds where The Hunger Games movies have faltered and right now is better than the Divergent series will ever be.