Fantastic Book - Terrible Movie

Rating: 2/10 (13 September 2015)

When a movie has been adapted from a book, I have to read the book first. I typically find the book to be much better since there is so much more room to expand. So, while reading The Maze Runner, I couldn't put it down. There were so many details and layers to the book that were so intriguing and exciting & I couldn't wait to see how the book had been adapted for the big screen. Let's just say I was very disappointed. I feel like I wasted 2 hours of my life.
There were so many things about the book that I thought would be so cool to see brought to life - the grievers, the cliff & the griever hole to name a few. Everything was so wrong. The grievers were not at all what the book described. There was no cliff. The griever hole was a visible hole that you could walk right into. I wanted to see the Gladers figure out the griever hole, figure out how to get down there by having grievers chase them and fall off the cliff, etc.
Then on top of all that, so much was out of order & just so incredibly different. Teresa didn't show up the day after Thomas (it was more like 2 or 3); the keeper meetings were public for everyone in the glade; there were no codes to punch into the computer to shut down the maze; Gally never got angry and left the meeting to run out into the maze & therefore when he turned up at the end, it was just all sorts of confusing; and then the biggest one in my mind - Teresa and Thomas didn't communicate telepathically (how that's going to work out in the next movie is beyond me!) & they had no chemistry.
There were so many other things that were completely off, but I got to the point where I couldn't pay attention to the movie or take it seriously anymore because it seemed like such a joke.
All in all, don't waste your time or money on this movie. If you want to get a good story, go pick up the book from the library, it won't disappoint like the movie version did. After seeing The Maze Runner, I doubt I waste my time watching The Scorch Trials.