The Maze Runner
Directed by Wes Ball
A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society, he begins to uncover clues that may lead to escape and the truth behind their confinement. From TMDB
123 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, TMDB reviews, Lemmy) · newest Oct 12, 2026 · last updated Oct 13, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 7 | 4 | 69 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 8 |
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| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 2 |
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Some viewers find the film original and refreshingly enjoyable. [1][2] Others criticize it as a forgettable clone of other dystopian YA movies. [3] Several note the acting and direction are decent, but the story feels incomplete. [4][5]
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One thing that I liked about this movie from the start was that it was, in my limited experience at least, somewhat original. Yes it was an apocalypse story but I have really not seen anything quite like it before. Yes moving mazes and all that have been done but the story as a whole was new to me. That was refreshingly enjoyable in this age of more or less boring Hollywood remakes. On the whole I quite enjoyed the …
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Re-watching The Maze Runner was a pleasant experience, and I still enjoyed it as much as I did the first time. The film's directing stands out, with a well-paced first act that successfully introduces us to the characters, the maze, and their unsettling situation. This setup provides a strong foundation for an exciting second act and a finale that leaves the audience with lingering questions, perfectly setting the …
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Amnesiac Dylan O'Brian emerges from a lift shaft in the ground to be found by a group of lads who've all been left to live a sort of subsistence existence inside a whopping great stone maze. A quick bout of wrestling with "Gally" (Will Poulter) reminds him that his name is "Thomas" but that still doesn't help him - or anyone else - with what he's doing here. Each day the great doors of the maze open up, but anyone …
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It was a good movie as far as it goes -- resourceful characters deprived of both freedom and their memories manage to build a society and think their way out of their bondage. The problem is that at the end, it simply stopped. No dramatic reason for ending where it does, no resolution of "why did the captors do this?" . Even in a series a movie ought to have a decent local climax -- for example, Kat and Peeta …
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Got roped into watching the Maze Runner films today... Well, re-watching. Stylistically they're not too bad really, and the acting isn't bad either. I think each film feels a bit one-dimensional, like there's something it's missing in some way.
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Critics, per Wikipedia
The film grossed $102 million in North America and more than $246 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $348 million. Prior to its release in the U.S. and Canada, box office analysts predicted the film would be a box office success, citing effective marketing, good word-of-mouth publicity and a solid release date. Preliminary reports predicted the film would open with takings of over $30–32 million in North America. According to movie-ticket sale website Fandango, The Maze Runner was the biggest seller accounting for more than 50% of early tickets sales. The film was released on September 19, 2014, in the United States and Canada across 3,604 locations and over 350 IMAX…
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60 of 123 · most liked firstAs The Legend of Zelda movie wraps filming, its cinematographer has shared a new look at Link. Gyula Pados worked as director of photography on two of the Maze Runner films, which were helmed by Zelda director Wes Ball. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/as-the-...
neutral · AI labelView post →Why did they cast Ferb in the Maze Runner movie? How could anyone take this seriously?
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm glad that other posters have given you a broad sample of content, and nice to see a young person chime in. I've never used the parental info on IMDB, but relied on Common Sense Media for some guidance. It's tough to make recommendations based solely on age, not knowing you limits as a parent, etc. But with that said, I'll offer a little parental input on some (my daughter is 11, but she's also the third kid, sooo...). Previously mentioned things: * **Doctor Who** - man, I wish Jodie…
neutral · AI labelView post →my kid: “for a movie called ‘The Maze Runner’ there’s not that much corn.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself with: One book 📚 — The Maze Runner One movie 🎥 — Tron Legacy One album 💿 — Doo-Wops & Hooligans One TV show 📺 — Bleach One game 🎮 — Red Dead Redemption 2
neutral · AI labelView post →Alex Garland is absolutely the wrong director for an Elden Ring movie but at least it's not like the Maze Runner director they got for the Zelda movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Nintendo taps Morbius producer for live-action Legend of Zelda movie The adaptation will be produced by Avi Arad and directed by The Maze Runner filmmaker Wes Ball. www.gamedeveloper.com/business/nin...
neutral · AI labelView post →What is Pac-Man's favorite film from 2014? ... The Maze Runner!
neutral · AI labelView post →Got roped into watching the Maze Runner films today... Well, re-watching. Stylistically they're not too bad really, and the acting isn't bad either. I think each film feels a bit one-dimensional, like there's something it's missing in some way.
neutral · AI labelView post →The problem with trying to adapt Zelda is that it’s first and foremost a video game franchise so once you strip away the interactivity all you’re left with is pretty generic fantasy writing. And the writers for this film include the guy who made The Rise of Skywalker and the Maze Runner so…
neutral · AI labelView post →where did all the dystopian YA stans go?it's beginning to feel like gary oldman said "you'll never survive in The Scorch" in the movie adaptation of The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials for nothing
neutral · AI labelView post →I don't think a Zelda movie produced by Avi Arad and made by the director of The Maze Runner and the weakest modern Apes installment is gonna be good, guys...
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight at a neighborhood event, inexplicably, the movie "The Maze Runner" came up &I said, I thought uncontroversially, "that's based on a kids book" & suddenly I found myself having to fight my way out of the room like I'm John Wick against people saying "it's YA! That's different! It's not kids!"
neutral · AI labelView post →Given what I hear about Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, I think Zelda is in good hands anyway and well, my fault prior to that movie, I just dismissed him as The Maze Runner guy.
neutral · AI labelView post →5 Favourite Things: Band: Asian Kung-Fu Generation Novel: The Maze Runner (i don't read that much lol) Podcast: Trash Taste Podcast Movie: 500 Days of Summer Show: Weak Hero 5 Mutuals: @ren136.bsky.social @eliseofsoleanna.bsky.social @spaghelliot.bsky.social @tempurahh.me @belombie.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →✅ Stuff I like Anime - Sword Art Online - My Hero Academia - Jujutsu Kaisen - Jojo’s - Soul Eater - Dungeon Meshi - BNA Other Shows - The Queen’s Gambit - MLP - Hilda - Arcane - Sweet Tooth - Digital Circus Movies - The Maze Runner trilogy - EVERY SPIDERMAN MOVIE - Doctor Strange
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Action Movies Released on September 19! What's your fave? 1. Elite Squad 2. The Maze Runner 3. Aztec Batman: Clash of Empires 4. Underworld 28 #Action movies released today: https://todayinmovies.com/genres/sep-19#action #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →250. Tron: Legacy 2010 2h5m PG 49 Metascore 6.8 (382K) Sits between : 249. The Maze Runner 2014 and 251. 28 Weeks Later 2007 on imdb category: movie/ sci-fi /80k votes or above
neutral · AI labelView post →Just finished watching The Maze Runner, and I gotta ramble about this. I think the movie was a good movie in terms of the movie format, having to fit everything into a shorter medium. It was fine, and I am excited to watch The Scorch Trials. HOWEVER. I absolutely love the book series and by god did
neutral · AI labelView post →Now that I am home and have the chance Regarding The Maze Runner WHY DOES NO ONE POINT OUT THAT THOMAS WAS KNOCKED OUT AND KIDNAPPED BY JANSON IN THE LAST MOVIE??? Its torture 🥀 Thomas literally just wanted to talk to Ava then got tranq’d WHY DOES NO ONE POINT IT OUT??? Thomas is my fav idc 🥀
neutral · AI labelView post →Y’all remember that teen dystopian book-turned-movie franchise craze from the early 2010’s? Divergent, The 5th Wave, The Maze Runner, The Hunger Games, etc.? Let’s get back to that.
neutral · AI labelView post →I want a prequel film to The Maze Runner where it’s just a bunch of engineering, construction, and arguing…like Oppenheimer except with massive puzzles. The Maze Builders.
neutral · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Science Fiction Movies Released on September 19! What's your fave? 1. The Maze Runner 2. Coherence 3. Xeno 4. Another End 14 #SciFi movies released today: https://todayinmovies.com/genres/sep-19#science-fiction #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →Learning today that the Zelda Movie coming out is lowkey an IDF movie is killing me. What the fuck do you mean Avi Arad is producing, the director of the Maze Runner Trilogy is on it, and has the director of photography for those really bad Jumanji movies with the Rock.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Maze Runner: Scorch Trials I've NEVER seen a movie adaptation adapted so poorly. I actually read the books and was a fan a year or so before the movies started, and my fucking god they took everything bonkers and unique and fun about the book and replaced it with a generic post apocalypse.
negative · AI labelView post →They should stick to writing knock-offs of "The Hunger Games" or "The Maze Runner." Or have those "Jewish Space Lasers From Italy" (great title for a sci-fi movie, eh?) burned out what little brains God gave them?
neutral · AI labelView post →doodle of Thomas because I finished the Maze Runner movie last night :D #tmr #themazerunner #tmrthomas #fanart #tmrfanart
neutral · AI labelView post →(It also makes sense given the Wes Ball's directorial experience with younger actors in the Maze Runner series, which I feel is more indicative of what Nintendo is aiming for with this particular film)
neutral · AI labelView post →The Maze Runner series has all three types of adaptations, in that order. The Scorch Trials movie makes me want to strangle someone #SunTells
negative · AI labelView post →Same with the Maze Runner movie, because when Maze Runner (played by Dylan O'Brien) talked about how HE runs his maze compared to others it was really great.
neutral · AI labelView post →@wesball.bsky.social My buddies and I did a movie night of the Maze Runner series recently and I just had a question. How much has your process evolved from the Maze Runner and its 2 sequels up to now with Kingdom and beyond? Has it been more creatively, or efficiency with cost and such?
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m thinking of that scene from the Maze Runner movie where it’s being used to administer medicine to a screaming patient, no tip
neutral · AI labelView post →🎲✂️4 scenes from films that kinda describe what playing Entombed feels like: Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong trousers The Mummy The Maze Runner Indiana Jones & The Last Crusade www.kickstarter.com/projects/b88...
neutral · AI labelView post →I always thought The Maze Runner was a stand-alone movie. Turns out it's a trilogy. That I just watched and FUCKING LOVED!! I'm excited to read the books one day I mean "The book was better" is the quote.I so far agree with from. what I've seen, then read, or vice versa.
positive · AI labelView post →This week's movie, The Maze Runner (2014), stars Dylan O'Brien, Kaya Scodelario, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Will Poulter, and Patricia Clarkson. O'Brien plays a teen boy named Thomas who is trapped in a strange maze and must fight for survival and his way out before time runs out.
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok. The Maze Runner is not a good movie. It's only a movie in the sense that it's a narrative motion picture with a runtime that qualifies it as a feature. It's a product offering derived from existing, market-tested IP aimed at children with just enough purchasing power to be deemed consumers.
negative · AI labelView post →🎬 The Top 4 Thriller Movies Released on September 19! What's your fave? 1. L.A. Confidential 2. A Streetcar Named Desire 3. Blue Velvet 4. The Maze Runner 48 #Thriller movies released today: https://todayinmovies.com/genres/sep-19#thriller #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →I still very much think that games with a silent protagonist are not good candidates for movies. I feel like you're either going to upset long time fans by making a character like Link speak or you're likely to alienate others by having a main character not have very many speaking lines. I don't really know how you do it right, but I'm also not a director or writer so maybe there is some hope? I'm also not sure if I trust the Maze Runner director with something like The Legend of Zelda. I think…
neutral · AI labelView post →Also, I think Nintendo would be more interested in someone with both more credits & experience to thier names. Wes Ball made The Maze Runner & Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes, & now he's making a Zelda movie thanks to his prior success'.
neutral · AI labelView post →Even with the alt text I'm struggling. Is the top right one a Neil Marshall film? And the bottom right one of the Maze Runner series?
neutral · AI labelView post →“2020s franchise movie: the movie” This or the Zelda movie from the director of The Maze Runner and the writer of Kong: Skull Island
neutral · AI labelView post →Fck it, boredom leads to posting our thoughts, and we're just neutral today. Rewatched The Maze Runner 2 days ago cus remembered it being a good movie, and it still honestly is. The mystery part of it is great, probably is we've seen The Scorch Trials once before and remember it being repetitive as+
positive · AI labelView post →Happy birthday to Thomas Brodie-Sangster, born today in 1990. An English actor, he is known in fandom for playing Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones, Newt in the Maze Runner film series and an officer of the First Order in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. #ThomasBrodieSangster
neutral · AI labelView post →Shit I forgot this one. People hate on the Maze Runner series, but wow that first movie is good. Made me watch the whole series and tbh I enjoyed all of it. You at least have to watch the first one, especially if you like Sci-fi action.
positive · AI labelView post →Oh, I 100% agree; Katniss was not about that romance life at all. I've never read the Divergent series, but I devoured the Maze Runner series (also after the first movie came out lol) and still love that one.
neutral · AI labelView post →First look at The Legend Of Zelda live action movie due for release in 2027. Directed by Wes Ball who is known for Kingdom Of The Planet Of The Apes & The Maze Runner trilogy, produced by Nintendo legend Shigeru Miyamoto. #LegendOfZelda #Nintendo #WesBall #ShigeruMiyamoto #Link
neutral · AI labelView post →The Maze Runner: The Scortch Trials Saw the first movie years ago, the second one definitely feels like...the second of a trilogy. I will say, even though I don't like horror, these movies do a good job of telegraphing the threats well before the monsters show up, so I'm alright with these.
neutral · AI labelView post →Change a movie by adding a word The Maze Runner Bean
neutral · AI labelView post →Director on this is Wes Ball, also did the MAZE RUNNER films. Apparently been tapped to do the ZELDA movie? Yeah, I can see the vision. Best of luck to him.
neutral · AI labelView post →20 - Newt from The Maze Runner (well, I prefer sassier Book Newt, but Movie Newt is good too 😁)
neutral · AI labelView post →The most memorable thing about the Maze Runner franchise is him saying "ScORch" in the commercial that ran a gazillion times each day when the 2nd film came out.
neutral · AI labelView post →Trailer for Twinless, the Sundance breakout written, directed and starring James Sweeney, also starring Teen Wolf Dylan O’Brien (The Maze Runner). Screening next at Queer Screen Film Fest
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy birthday to Thomas Brodie-Sangster, born today in 1990. An English actor, he is known in fandom for playing Jojen Reed in Game of Thrones, Newt in the Maze Runner film series and an officer of the First Order in Star Wars: The Force Awakens. #ThomasBrodieSangster
neutral · AI labelView post →The current director is Wes Ball, whose credits include Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes and the Maze Runner series. He's also said he'd love to see a "live action Miyazaki" film, and given Breath of the Wild' and Tears of the Kingdom's obvious influences, I think it has possibilities.
neutral · AI labelView post →Currently Reading 🎧📖: The Maze Runner I vaguely recall the first film, but was admittedly pretty distracted and it didn’t capture my attention. I’m definitely enjoying this more than I thought I would. #sci-fi #dystopia #booksky #Libby
positive · AI labelView post →I have not seen any of the Maze Runner movies but Kingdom of the planet of the apes is one of my favorite movies of 2024, he can do grand travel adventures which a Zelda movie would probably be. Honestly between Sony doing it and Avi Arad producing, Wes Ball as director is my beacon of hope
neutral · AI labelView post →Me too! With books and movies. I like just about anything but drama, historical fiction, mystery, thriller, dystopian and fantasy, some romance are my top favorites. Hunger Games, Divergent Deries,The Maze Runner, any Nicholas Sparks movie, to name a few. I am kinda all over the place too! 😆
neutral · AI labelView post →Never read the book but the prestige film is so underrated. Other great films that are better than the book: Fight Club The Maze Runner
positive · AI labelView post →Stuff i like to appease the algorithm: - Zelda - Pokemon - Mario - Punch Out - Kid Icarus - MCU - Total Drama - Dragon Ball - Film Making - The Maze Runner - Photography - Attack on Titan - Soul Eater - Mob Psycho 100 - The Owl House - Gravity Falls
neutral · AI labelView post →I am watching the third part of The Maze Runner films, and while I feel like overall it's *not a great film*, I'm struck that the scenes in the city where everyone is wearing masks don't look at all weird to me, while they would have done in 2018 when it was released.
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