Cube meets Lord of the Flies

Rating: 8/10 (11 February 2015)

I actually enjoyed this movie. I was expecting a tedious boring book to film carve up like Divergent and instead got a well paced adventure with some pretty solid characters. OK, the story isn't totally original; kids put in a primitive setting left to survive or die is straight out of Lord of the Flies and the shifting maze is just like Cube but it kept up the pace and suspense just enough to hold my interest. I have just one question that maybe they didn't explain properly; what was the point of the runners? They couldn't escape through the maze, they had to return by nightfall but they got nothing out of it because their supplies came up from the pit so why run through it at all? Apart from that it wasn't a bad movie. Unlike Divergent(which was full of one dimensional pretty things) I am anticipating the sequel.