Counted four explosions before the studio logo finished. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials knows its audience.

“The devil tomato approves... reluctantly.”
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials
Masterfully crafted. Un-roastable.
An absolute cinematic disaster.
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
🚬 LIGHTING A CIGAR OFF THE SCREENPLAY…
Thomas and his fellow Gladers face their greatest challenge yet: searching for clues about the mysterious and powerful organization known as WCKD. Their journey takes them to the Scorch, a desolate landscape filled with unimaginable obstacles. Teaming up with resistance fighters, the Gladers take on WCKD’s vastly superior forces and uncover its shocking plans for them all.
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Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials: where physics filed for emotional distress and lost.
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials should come with a complimentary pillow for when the third-act CGI soup inevitably kicks in.
The script for Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials feels like it was entirely written by an algorithm fed nothing but energy-drink commercials.
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Why does no one talk about how mid the writing in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials actually is?
Director clearly thought Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials was deeper than it is. There's a difference between ambiguous and unfinished, and this leans hard into the second.
Hot Take: Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials's third act ruined what could have been a masterpiece
Honestly, Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials would be a tight 95-minute movie. Instead we got a bloated runtime padded with B-roll and lingering shots that add nothing.
[Spoilers] Can we discuss that absolutely baffling ending in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials?
Just got out of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials and I'm convinced critics are being paid in residuals. Two genuinely good scenes do not make a film. Convince me otherwise.
The cinematography in Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is doing all the heavy lifting and it shows
Look, I wanted to love Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials. The trailer had me hyped. But sitting through the second hour felt like a homework assignment. The dialogue is exposition stacked on exposition and the score keeps telling me how to feel.
