Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials's reviews
Media reviews
Los Angeles Times
"Go!" That word shouted out in triplicate or quintuplicate is the refrain and credo of director Wes Ball's "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials," the breathless second chapter of the rare young adult fantasy series that can stand up to "The Hunger Games." The first "Maze Runner" film was a wilderness saga refitted with robotic monsters. "The Scorch Trials" is a "Mad Max" film on foot.
USA Today
Having bromantic bonfires in the Glade seems like heaven, however, when our heroes are rescued and get a look at what?s happened outside the maze walls, as solar flares have annihilated Earth. By the time Scorch Trials begins, though, they realize they?re still in WCKD clutches.
Cinemanía
Its growth reinforces the notion that in today's Hollywood certain sequels are becoming more sureties of a material that, once it has past the trance of building a franchise, it can be exploited with determination.
Fotogramas
The first film of 'The Maze Runner' series was all potential and very little satisfactory resolution: it simply was reserving its forces for this sequel, which does not repeat the isolation scheme within a behavioral experiment, but carries a mutant, playful and significantly superior formula in comparison to the one that was last tested.
The Wrap
An ungainly mess of a movie made out of headlong flight and too-familiar ideas, ?Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials? follows on the heels of ?The Maze Runner,? repeating every flaw and failure in that first entry and adding a few of its own.
Variety
This installment of 'The Maze Runner' works well enough as any standard action, terror and survival thriller, but it is confusing and unsatisfying in the aftermath.
New York Post
?The Scorch Trials? does feature some cool effects, with skyscrapers busted-up like bags of pretzels that have been run over by a tractor.
El País
None of the virtues of 'The Maze Runner', unless the charisma of its performers, is in this second installment. A slow and repetitive development that appears to be heading nowhere.