How does one define an escape?

Rating: 5/10 (26 January 2015)

I had never heard of "The Maze Runner" when I started watching it. It turned out to be an interesting movie, although I couldn't tell what exactly it was trying to say. The Harry Potter and Hunger Games series are very upfront about what they're saying, but this movie comes across as a softer "Lord of the Rings". I thought that the best part was the end, and I thought that Patricia Clarkson got underused; if you're going to cast her in a movie, she needs to be a major character (and I find it easier to take her seriously in movies like "Far from Heaven", "Good Night and Good Luck" and "The East").
Overall, it's an OK movie, but like "Twilight" and "The Giver" it comes across as kind of flat. I could tell that they were leaving open the possibility of a sequel, though.