Another film adaptation of a young-adult book. A mix of Lord of the Flies, Lost, The Hunger Games, and a few others.You have a bunch of boys trapped inside a walled glade. They don't remember who they are or how they ended up in the glade. Every month, an elevator rises up from the ground with some supplies and another boy. Every morning, a door opens up leading into a maze, then closes at night. Runners go inside the maze to try to find a way out. If you don't get out of the maze by the time the door closes, robotic spiders called Grievers hunt you down and kill you.
This time, the elevator comes up with a boy named Thomas. He's a bit special because during his first time in the maze, he manages to destroy a Griever. This ruffles the feathers of some old-timers, and the group is split into two loyalties. In the end, Thomas convinces the group that facing the deadly Grievers, and going through the maze is their only chance of getting out. They get lucky and stumbles into the control room. A woman in a video explains that most of the global population was wiped out by a worldwide catastrophe. Her group called the World Catastrophe Killzone Department (WKCD) is monitoring the kids' brains in order to find a cure. (Okay...) In the background of the video, we can see some soldiers rushing into the room, and the woman shoots herself in the head. Then, the same soldiers rush into the same room (again), and whisks off the kids in helicopters.
In the final scene, we see that the woman is alive, and wiping off fake blood from her forehead. Come back again for the sequel.
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