Surprisingly good... but sometimes out of proportion

Rating: 7/10 (15 January 2015)

When I actually first watched the movie poster, The Maze Runner really caught my attention. I really wanted to watch it and that's what I did the other day. It's actually quite a good action movie and I really like how the story develops through time. It always kept the spectator guessing and it was actually quite difficult to anticipate certain moves like it is often the case. The death of Blake Cooper is really heartbreaking and thoroughly unexpected especially in the way he actually was and this also participated in keeping the spectator guessing.
On the negative sides however here's my take. The notion that Dylan O'Brian comes like some sort of superhero and then all of sudden is able to escape and even kill one of these beasts in the Maze is kind of really laughable. I actually know that this is done for the purpose of the film, suspense or whatever you want but this actually doesn't really cut it.
Another thing is certain battle scenes with the beasts. I mean if these things are so good, so strong or else, how exactly were they able to resist with sticks and batons against them with only a select few getting killed. That in itself too doesn't really make sense. It's either you portray the teenagers as superhuman and equal to these things or either you actually have them as simple human beings with a better thinking and more astute way of getting rid of them than just standing there defeating them with sticks when these machines are designed as having much prominent advanced weapons. Unfortunately, they were made like equal to these things and the opportunity to show that indeed certain teenagers and children can be very astute wasn't fully attained -; though throughout the film it was mostly the case (ability to set rules, to live in a disciplined society, to work and cooperate in group... especially when you know that most of today's teenagers tend to be quite rebel or unruly) but that was a big letdown for me.
The last thing that really bothered me is that scene where they were trying to hide one of their mate because they didn't want to leave him behind. Dylan O'Brian himself then had to hide himself because there was a beast coming for both of them. I mean the contradiction between the fact of making these beasts as advanced robots with great computerized systems and the fact that they can't even detect either of Aml Ameen or Dylan O'Brian is just a ridiculous concept and really throws a doubt on how efficient these machines are really made to be -; considering how the characters of the movie were sanctifying them as ultimate unbeatable gods. Obviously, they would have had some defects but not in the way the characters actually talked about them.