Exciting visuals and a real kick-arse bass-filled sound track.

Rating: Null/10 (13 January 2015)

We saw this on DVD from our public library.
Honestly, the best thing about this movie for me was the sound track, especially the low bass. Even some sob-sonic bass. The kind that you actually feel! The boys are in the central green area of a very large maze with tall concrete walls. Every morning the giant doors on one of the four faces of the interior wall cranks open, and it shakes the viewing room. But every evening the doors crank shut and no one has ever survived being trapped inside overnight. There are large insect-like creatures called Grievers that get them.
The band of boys number maybe 30 to 35, and the first one arrived 3 years earlier. A mysterious elevator carrying an additional boy, plus supplies, arrives every 30 days. They also have to make use of the green area for food and shelter.
But they believe that there is a path out of the maze and, if they can discover it, everyone can get to freedom. So the very select few boys who go in are called 'maze runners.' When what turns out to be the last boy comes in, then the first ever girl, things heat up.
The movie is entertaining, but it also ends without much resolution, setting the story up for one or several sequels. As of this date the second one is in filming.
The overall story has to do with widespread destruction of Earth plus a brain-eating virus. Somehow the researchers who set up this grand experiment of sorts were looking for a cure for the ills of the world but it isn't clear at all what they were actually trying to do and why. So, if a viewer wants a story that is tied up neatly at the end, this one will not give that.