![]() With this, they escape into the desert, pursued by WCKD goons and kill-crazy monsters (making the most of our culture’s fascination with zombies). But soon they learn Janson works for WCKD too, and that they’re scheduled to be drained of their genetic immunity to the zombie virus. At first, the teen heroes have no suspicions about their hosts, who offer showers, clean clothes, and hot food. Supposedly, their militarized rescuers, headed by Janson (Aidan Gillen), also escaped the maze trials. This time around, Thomas remains determined to expose WCKD, which runs human experiments to eradicate a zombie-like plague. They’re quickly taken away by soldiers with helicopters to who-knows-where. “Gladers” Thomas (Dylan O’Brien), Teresa (Kaya Scodelario), their friend Newt (Thomas Brodie-Sangster), and others have escaped “the maze trials” established by a mysterious group dubbed World Catastrophe Killzone Department (WCKD, pronounced “wicked”). Add zombies, and this is the basic plot of The Scorch Trials, which picks up the instant The Maze Runner concluded. Nevertheless, the Arab king escapes and resolves to attack the Babylonian kingdom, capture its king, and gets revenge by sending him into an Arab labyrinth: the inescapable desert. But when an Arab king visits the Babylonian kingdom, he’s sent inside the labyrinth in an act of ridicule. The short story follows a Babylonian king who demands a labyrinth “so confusing and so subtle that the most prudent men would not venture to enter it” (which might as well be the labyrinth from The Maze Runner). ![]() In 1939, Argentinean-born writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths. At least the action-centric story moves along at a fast pace, even if the over-plotted scenario employs one cliché after another, from zombies to post-apocalypse wastelands to vast secretive conspiracies. Director Wes Ball’s adaptation of the second installment in James Dashner’s book trilogy answers a few questions about the cryptic predecessor, but ultimately leaves viewers, particularly those unfamiliar with the books, waiting for an explanation as to what it’s all about. That’s the familiar setting of Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials, the latest YA franchise sequel to follow in the footsteps of The Hunger Games and Divergent. ![]() What’s worse than a maze with towering walls and filled with slimy biomechanical spiders? An endless desert populated by zombie-things called “Cranks”, where there’s nowhere to hide except the skeletal remains of ruined buildings.
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