Movie of the Week: The Maze Runner

[jacey]

I not only forgot to blog this, but when I was sitting here desperately trying to remember which movie I'd forgotten to blog I couldn't bring it to mind. I guess that tells you as much as you need to know. It's not terrible, but altogether i found it a bit underwhelming.

IMDB says: Thomas wakes up in an elevator, remembering nothing but his own name. He emerges into a world of about 60 teen boys who have learned to survive in a completely enclosed environment, subsisting on their own agriculture and supplies. A new boy arrives every 30 days. The original group has been in "The Glade" for two years, trying to find a way to escape through the Maze that surrounds their living space. They have begun to give up hope. Then a comatose girl arrives with a strange note, and their world begins to change.

Okay, I admit there's some fast-paced action, i.e. a fair amount of running and fighting. Dylan O'Brien is completely forgettable as Thomas, but that's probably down to my advanced age and thinking most teen/twenties actors in Hollywood (male and female) look like they came out of the same mould. (Is it just me?) There's an interesting twist at the end, but Hunger Games is isn't.

Comments

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

When I was in my late teens or very early twenties, one of my mother's friends (in her late forties) told me that all the actors and actresses in Hollywood looked the same to her, because they had no lines in the faces to distinguish them. So it's not just you. (They all look alike to me now, too.)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

The remake of Total Recall was a total nightmare because both the heroine and the villain were the same body/face-type/hair colour with no distinguishing features. Look up imdb bpics of Kate Beckinsale and Jessica Biel.