a little bit of excitement

Rating: 6/10 (2 January 2015)

Not a bad movie. It sucks you in for the most part into the characters mission of escaping from the maze/maze camp. It achieves this despite none of the characters themselves doing anything to make you interested their well-being. I mean you care about them insofar as they are human and seem to generally be nice people but none are particularly likable and all are fairly bland (a result of poor duologue and poor acting).
The blandness of the characters doesn't detract from your absorption in the movie toooo much, I'm guessing partly because it is part of the premise of the movie that the characters are thrown into the maze camp without any self-knowledge (can't remember what they were like before they woke up in maze-land). The movie is at its weakest when it tries to develop the characters and make you more emotionally involved. These scenes (for example a scene where the Chuck is talking about wanting to get home to his parents) are completely ineffective and generally laughable.
The story that is built around their attempt to escape keeps you interested.
The maze itself looks cool and is believable.
The ends a bit of dud. It's predictable and doesn't really add any substance to the overall movie
Overall there is enough in this movie to keep you interested and provide a bit of excitement but you won't walk away with anything besides that.