The scorch trials movie reviews series#

The movie is likely to be very disturbing for children. It has even more intense violence, blood and gore, and scary images and characters than the first movie in the series. The end of the movie is a real cliffhanger, aimed at leaving the audience hungry for the third movie in the series.

The scorch trials movie reviews series#

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials is the second instalment in the Maze Runner series of science fiction action movies based on James Dashner's best-selling young adult novels. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials has some coarse language. A teenage girl wraps her arms around the neck of the boy she is dancing with and kisses him passionately on the mouth. For example, one scene shows a group of young people dancing. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials has some sexual activity. They have hallucinations of monsters before they pass out. After drinking the liquid the couple start to act like they’re drunk.

A man coaxes an older teenage boy and girl to drink liquid from a flask so they can get into a dance club.

A doctor injects a teenage girl with a cure for a virus.

A teenage boy is injected with what’s called ‘a cocktail of vitamins’.

Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials shows some use of substances. None of concern Alcohol, drugs and other substances

A later scene shows images of dozens of dead bodies lying on the ground covered with blankets.

Rather than surrender to the soldiers, some young men threaten to kill themselves by exploding a bomb. A pool of blood forms on the woman’s clothing before she collapses to the ground. An unarmed female doctor who had surrendered is shot in the stomach by a soldier. A soldier throws a grenade into a group of people, causing an electrical charge to engulf the group with bolts of lightning. People trying to flee are shot in the back and chest.

Two helicopters fire missiles into a rebel compound, destroying much of the compound and killing dozens of people.

Her mother had gouged out her own eyes to stop herself seeing disturbing visions.

A girl talks about going into her sick mother’s room to find the floor covered in blood.

A man points a gun at his head, threatening to kill him. He is repeatedly punched in the face until his face is swollen, bruised and bloody. A man is bound to a chair with his hands tied behind his back.Eventually the compound explodes in flames, and the roof collapses on top of soldiers and civilians. A soldier says, ‘Every last one of you will die’. In one scene dozens of soldiers attack a civilian compound, firing automatic weapons at the civilians.One scene shows a partially mummified man’s body with a plastic bag over its head, sitting in a chair.The soldier convulses and small bolts of lightning flash over his body. A young man shoots a soldier with a gun that fires an electrical charge.A woman talks about ‘harvesting’ (killing) a group of youths, saying that she doesn’t want them to feel any pain.A guard punches a young man in the stomach without provocation.Groups of unarmed mutant humans attack the soldiers and are killed. Some scenes feature battles with gunship-style helicopters and soldiers firing automatic weapons.There are scenes that show blood and gore throughout the movie. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials has long and violent sequences and many violent deaths, including executions and suicide. Human experimentation destruction of civilisation mutants rebellion Violence But Jorge and Brenda betray Thomas and his friends to WCKD. Thomas and his friends then are befriended by a man named Jorge (Giancarlo Esposito) and a girl called Brenda (Rosa Salazar), who claim they can lead them to the Right Hand. On the way, they must fight off mutant humans and WCKD soldiers lead by the vindictive Janson (Aiden Gillen). They believe a resistance group known as the Right Hand is hiding there. This disease has wiped out most of the world’s population, turning those it infects into mutant zombies.Īfter their discovery, Thomas and his friends escape WCKD headquarters and head off across the scorched wastelands towards the mountains. But their sense of safety is shattered when Thomas and his new friend Aris (Jacob Lofland) discover that WCKD is experimenting on young people to find a cure for a deadly disease called the Flare. Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials begins with Thomas (Dylan O’Brian), Minho (Ki Hong Lee), Newet (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), Frypan (Dexter Darden) and Teresa (Kaya Scodelario) safe in WCKD (‘Wicked’) headquarters.