![]() ![]() The many chases and ludicrous narrow escapes offer respectable doses of adrenaline. “The Scorch Trials” adds nothing new to the unkillable dystopian genre, but it’s at least less ponderous than its predecessor. Their unlikely jailbreak sends them blinking into a blasted landscape of ruined skyscrapers and giant sand dunes, like some combination of Tatooine and Detroit, where they hope to survive long enough to find a fabled group of resistance fighters. That’s enough info for him to grab his friends and skedaddle. Thomas discovers that Janson is stringing kids up, unconscious and riddled with tubes, for some reason related to the virus. The teenagers are among the only people left immune to a virus that turns humans into zombielike mutants that shriek like velociraptors. ![]() Now they are in a large industrial compound, saved from a nefarious organization called WCKD by another mysterious crew led by Janson (Aidan Gillen), a transparently shady guy himself. The Scorch in the film title Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials refers to the Earth outside the various WCKD (aka Wicked). Stiff, vague bits of exposition establish that the youths had, indeed, been in some kind of maze. “ Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,” the second in a series about a racially diverse but otherwise interchangeable set led by a hardy hunk named Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), throws us right into the action. Science doesn’t yet know how many movies it will take to answer this century’s most pressing question: How will attractive teenagers survive the apocalypse?
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