Pre-screening : Maze Runner

 Maze Runner

PG-13

Amount of Crunch : THE CRUNCH WAS REAL x10

Time : 113 min

Release Date : 19 September 2014.

September 8th, at about 6:40 my friend and I joined a surprising amount of people to watch the new movie The Maze Runner. The tickets were offered by Regal for free to

anyone who wanted them. So naturally I scooped up a pair of tickets because I had been rather excited to see this movie for some time. We got in the theater about 7:00, and were reminded about 1,000 times that your phone was prohibited. After a grueling 20 minutes, the head security guy quieted everyone and strictly told us that cell phones were not allowed and they will have 6 guys during the movie with night vision that will be watching everyone the whole time. That was not a lie and it was the most distracting thing ever.

So as a person that had read the book I was quite interested to see how they were going to create this movie. The book is quite long and very full of detail so how they were going to cram all of that into a two hour movie seemed a bit of a stretch. Im not going to give away the plot or anything but know as a book reader the changes that the director Wes Ball had created were nothing short of fantastic. They made things flow in a way that wasn’t too drastically different from the book. 

Kaya Scodelario was fantastic. From the look she had to the mannerisms , she was a great Teresa. I’ve watched Kaya in a couple of movies and tv shows and I was excited to see her on the big screen. She did not disappoint.

The casting for the boys in the movie was spot on. Dylan O’Brien was incredible as Thomas. I literally have no other words than he brought a book character to life and I couldn’t be happier. Plus he wasn’t too bad to look at on a big screen either ;) 

The part I was most worried about though was Newt. He was my favorite in all of the books and I thought that it would be hard to capture that intelligent sass that comes with Newts character. But Thomas Brodie-Sangster was incredible. He had the whole persona of Newt inside of him. Maybe it’s just my undying love for this character but I was so happy to see that he had brought him to life in the best way possible. 

Overall, I was very impressed with this movie and the actors inside of it. They are all rather new faced factors for the big screen and some people were nervous that they wouldn’t perform. If you are one of those people , the group that they have casted for this movie is nothing short of fantastic and that reason alone should not stop you from seeing this fantastic movie.