Directed By: Wes Ball
Released On: 19 September 2014
Type: science fiction dystopian action thriller film
Description:
A young man wakes up inside an underground service elevator with no memory of his identity. A group of male youths greet him in a large grassy area called the Glade that is enclosed by tall, stone walls. Every month, a new boy and supplies arrive in the elevator. The boys, called Gladers, have formed a rudimentary society with each assuming specialized tasks. Alby, their leader and the first to arrive in the Glade, says every boy eventually recalls his name, but none remember their past. The boy learns that a vast Maze surrounding the Glade may provide the only way out. During the day, designated Runners search the Maze for an escape route, returning before nightfall when the entrance closes. No one has ever survived a night inside the Maze.
While in a competition with Gally, the boy suddenly remembers his name is Thomas. Later, Thomas is attacked by Ben, a Runner delirious from being stung by a Greiver – deadly techno-organic creatures that roam the Maze at night. Ben is forced into the Maze and left to die as punishment for harming another Glader. Minho, the lead Runner, and Alby later retrace Ben's steps inside the Maze. Minho reappears at dusk dragging Alby, who was stung, but they are unable to reach the closing entrance in time. Thomas spontaneously runs into the Maze to help but all three are trapped. Thomas' actions during the night keeps them alive, and he kills a Griever, the first to ever survive the night and kill a Griever. To the other boys' astonishment, they return the next morning.
Gally claims Thomas has jeopardized the fragile peace between the Gladers and the Grievers and wants him punished, but Newt, the group's second-in-command, instead designates Thomas a Runner. Thomas, Minho and several volunteers enter the Maze. They locate the Griever corpse and remove a beeping mechanical device from inside it. The device is numbered to correspond to a certain section within the Maze. The next morning, the first-ever girl arrives in the elevator. She apparently recognizes Thomas though he cannot remember her. A note says she is the last one being sent. Minho shows Thomas a scale model of the Maze he has built, based on his three years of exploration. The Maze's numbered sections open and close in a regular pattern that might be a code. With the mechanical device, they may be able to find an escape route.
The girl, Teresa, has two syringes filled with an unknown substance. One is used on Alby, and he gradually recovers from the Griever sting and begins regaining his memories.Minho and Thomas venture back into the Maze and discover a possible exit but are nearly trapped, barely making it back to the Glade.
That night, the Maze entrance does not close while others open, letting Grievers pour in. Alby is killed and many are attacked. Thomas, who has had disconnected memory flashes since arriving, stabs himself with a severed Griever stinger then is injected with the anti-venom in an attempt to revive his memory. Unconscious, he recalls that he and Teresa share a psychic connection and they worked for the organization that created the Maze; the boys unknowingly have been in an experiment. Thomas awakens and shares this with Newt, Minho, Chuck, and Teresa.
Meanwhile, Gally has taken command and intends to sacrifice Thomas and Teresa to the Grievers to restore the peace. Some of the Gladers stop Gally then follow Thomas through the Maze. Fighting Grievers as they go, the survivors escape the Maze and eventually enter a laboratory strewn with dead scientists and technicians. A woman in a video recording explains that the planet has been devastated by increased solar activity, followed by a pandemic of a deadly, incurable virus called the Flare. The Gladers were an experiment studying their resistance to it. At the end, she shoots herself as the lab is being attacked. Gally suddenly appears armed with a gun he found. Delirious from a Griever sting, he insists they must stay in the Maze, then aims at Thomas. Minho kills Gally with a spear, but not before Chuck is fatally shot protecting Thomas, who is devastated by his friend's death. Armed men rush in and take the group to a helicopter. As they fly over the Maze, it is revealed to be in a vast desert. Eventually, the helicopter approaches a ruined city. The scene ends with the supposedly dead scientists meeting in a room. The leader notes that the experiment has been a success; the survivors are now enteringPhase Two.
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