What's the point

Rating: 5/10 (16 October 2014)

The movie is bearable, the action is interesting, but the whole thing is predictable (up to a certain point). We know immediately that the new guy will be the first to do what no one else has done before...
There are lots of points I don't agree on, but the main one is the end. The premise of the maze is that the smart ones will get out. The feeling of the one who watches is exactly the opposite. If someone thought to kill all the staff, the doctors, the maintainers of the maze, then why not save all kids directly? The end scene shows the survivors being flown in a helicopter above the maze. The survivors need to be stupid if they didn't realize this was a setup... If they wanted to save them, all they needed to do was to fly the helicopter in the center of the maze and pull them out...
Other things I found odd: - the new arrivants are not fully briefed on the maze and the dangers inside. That's the sure way of making someone curious... - how can the maze runners always find their way, and map it, if the maze keeps changing? - how could the kids fight a mechanical spider with sticks? In the end, the thing could just wipe them out directly. - the world ending brain disease justification of these maze trials was a little absurd... I'm curious what the book does with this...
edit: I just read the book, to see how it ends. In the book, the maze is covered, so clearly, no helicopter can reach the Glade. Furthermore, the kids are "saved" using a bus, not a helicopter. I don't know what the script writers have for brains, for putting that helicopter fly over the maze scene at the end.