The Maze Runner (2014)

The Maze Runner (2014)
Rating: ★★★
Sep 28, 2014Young Adult/Maze World/Conceptual Breakthrough Story
One of the better among the current fad for Young Adult dystopian SF works post-The Hunger Games. This dispenses with dystopian Coming of Age stories and gives us a fascinating conceptual mystery even if the answers prove underwhelming

The Scorch Trials (2015)

The Scorch Trials (2015)
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Oct 30, 2015Young Adult/Post-Holocaust Adventure
The Maze Runner was one of the better Young Adult films, creating an intriguing conceptual mystery; this sequel ignores all of that, even throws the book out and is essentially a jumble of random sf tropes that amount to no more than running, shooting and things exploding

The Death Cure (2018)

The Death Cure (2018)
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Apr 21, 2018Young Adult/Dystopian-Post-Holocaust Adventure
The Maze Runner was a solid Young Adult effort that built out an effective Conceptual Breakthrough story; this, the second of two sequels, feeld like a series of canned action scenes in search of a purpose

BumbleBee (2018)

BumbleBee (2018)
Rating: ★★★
Apr 6, 2019Transformers Spinoff
Spinoff from Michael Bay's Transformers films. As though all it took was a change of director, this becomes a quite enjoyable film. Rather than another of Bay's orgies of mass destruction, this is a small sweet film that has more in common with E.T.

Love and Monsters (2020)

Love and Monsters (2020)
Rating: ★★
Dec 11, 2020Journey Across a Post-Apocalyptic World of Giant Animals
A nerdy guy sets out across a post-apocalyptic wasteland filled with giant animals to be with the girl of his dreams. This sound promising in description but suffers an identity crisis on screen