

Like all the other teenaged boys there - including leader Gally (Will Poulter: Plastic) and his lieutenant, Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster: Game of Thrones) - Thomas remembers nothing but his name: not why they have been imprisoned here, not who could have done this, nothing. Thomas (Dylan O’Brien: The Internship) wakes up in a mysterious, if pleasantly verdant, Glade surrounded by a massive, constantly shifting maze of hundred-meter-high concrete walls. The list of - well, let’s be kind and call them “influences” - on the latest young-adult dystopian adventure is a litany of puzzle adventures-cum-existential mysteries, none of which The Maze Runner fares well up against. (what is this about? see my critic’s minifesto)
