The Maze Runner
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The Maze Runner

Get ready to run.

2014 • 113 min • Action · Mystery · Science Fiction · Thriller

86
Critics
7 reviews
Fans
Not enough reviews

Synopsis

A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society, he begins to uncover clues that may lead to escape and the truth behind their confinement.

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Top billed cast

Director: Wes Ball • Crew: Noah Oppenheim, Grant Pierce Myers, T.S. Nowlin

Trailers & clips

Official Trailer #2

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Critic reviews

fresh

Re-watching The Maze Runner was a pleasant experience, and I still enjoyed it as much as I did the first time. The film's directing stands out, with a well-paced first act that successfully introduces us to the characters, the maze, and their unsettling situation.…

fresh

Amnesiac Dylan O'Brian emerges from a lift shaft in the ground to be found by a group of lads who've all been left to live a sort of subsistence existence inside a whopping great stone maze. A quick bout of wrestling with "Gally" (Will Poulter) reminds him that his name is "Thomas" but that still doesn't help him - or anyone else - with what he's doing here.…

fresh

It's one of my favorite movie series I've ever seen, but I can't deny that it's very different from the original book.

fresh

Much better than the marketing would have you assume. _Final rating: ★★★ - I personally recommend you give it a go._

fresh

One thing that I liked about this movie from the start was that it was, in my limited experience at least, somewhat original. Yes it was an apocalypse story but I have really not seen anything quite like it before. Yes moving mazes and all that have been done but the story as a whole was new to me. That was refreshingly enjoyable in this age of more or less boring Hollywood remakes.…

fresh

It was a good movie as far as it goes -- resourceful characters deprived of both freedom and their memories manage to build a society and think their way out of their bondage. The problem is that at the end, it simply stopped. No dramatic reason for ending where it does, no resolution of "why did the captors do this?" .…

rottenTop critics

Another forgettable Game of Ender/Hunger Games/Divergent clone. In this case, to compensate that the main characters are often women, we just make the whole cast to be men. Just forget about this.

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Details

TMDB audience
7.2/10 (18,304)
Age rating
PG-13
Status
Released
Budget
$34,000,000
Box office
$348,319,861
Franchise
The Maze Runner Collection

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