Thrilling movie with an ending as bad as Lost (if not worse)

Rating: 5/10 (27 November 2014)

****THIS POST CONTAINS SPOILERS!****
I'll start this review by saying that the author of this story needs to take a basic 101 science class because this film/book was just insulting to our intelligence as human beings.
I had heard good things about the book this movie was adapted from, and felt the concept would make an intense and awesome movie. So I went into this movie with nothing but good expectations. I'll even admit, i enjoyed 98% of the movie even though i had to turn my brain off a few times and ignore certain things. It was thrilling and had great special fx.
But the biggest flaw to a film like this, is its reliance on having to explain the events that unfolded, and in that, the author of this story not only tanked, but made himself look like a complete idiot that has no clue how scientific methods work.
'were trying to find a cure for a virus, so we built this over elaborate maze and tortured you with cybernetic robots for 3 years'
This is basically the half baked explanation we are force fed in the last 2 minutes of the movie. I'm sorry but why would scientists trying to develop and study a cure for a virus destroy their test subjects? What do giant cyborg spiders have to do with testing blood samples and reproducing a cure? Did this author do no research whatsoever into biological science, virus's, or the basic scientific method? None of these tests being done on these kids relate to anything. And in unveiling that the world is scorched by the sun, they opened up the biggest plothole of them all: HOW THE HELL WERE THEY LIVING IN A LUSCIOUS GREEN GRASSY TREE FILLED ENVIRONMENT AND NOT HOT AT ALL THE ENTIRE TIME, DESPITE BEING UNDER THAT SAME SCORCHING SUN THAT THEY SAID WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO BE UNDER?!?!?!
The entire ending was like a giant horrific car wreck and one of the cars was full of baby puppies burning alive. I couldn't help but sit there gawking in horror and disbelief at what was happening before my eyes. And this was supposed to be a lead in to a sequel? All this ending made me want to do was get the same mind altering treatment they got to make me forget i ever even watched this one
Heres what to expect from this film:
-no explanation of why there were only guys in the maze
-no explanation of why they suddenly introduced a girl at the end
-no explanation of why they made the maze finally stop working after 3 years and allowed everyone to be slaughtered
-no explanation of why the kids have a diagram of a maze that supposedly changes its layout every night (which they said was impossible to map out)
-no character attachment whatsoever. when people die you seriously don't even care. even in the supposed-to-be-emotional ending scene
the guy a couple reviews back pretty much broke the entire movie with his post 'why didn't they just build a ladder if they were there for 3 years and climb out' /entire trilogy done
And from every source on the internet I've read, apparently the third book is even worse and the trilogy ending is beyond a car wreck, which means people should just avoid getting involved in this story at all