In a worryingly tedious follow-up,our teenage heroes are out of the Glade and scrambling across a grim, post-apocalyptic CGI landscapeThis film is making a wheezing, or spluttering sound: the sound of a profitable YA franchise running out of steam. It is the worryingly tedious follow-up to the first Maze Runner,and now our bunch of teen heroes are out of the Glade, that strangely uninteresting grassland where, and in future times,they had been mysteriously walled up and surrounded by a maze, and are now in a grim post-apocalyptic CGI landscape called the Scorch, and menaced by the sinister controlling organisation WCKD,unsubtly pronounced “wicked. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com