He wrangles some tense chase sequences and engineers one big jump scare. Here Wes Ball has great fun framing the action. In the scorch, we enter horror movie territory for a few scenes. There are couple of saving graces, though. In The Scorch Trials, there’s none of that. In a great trilogy, this is where the character material would take centre stage, heightening our investment before the big showdown in part three. The kids can’t defeat anyone, or even learn anything, because all that presumably happens in the next film. This is second-in-a-trilogy syndrome, and not at its best – nothing really happens because nothing is allowed to happen. You feel like the writers are biding their time before bringing all the goodies and baddies back together at the end, and even that culminates in nothing more than a demand for viewers to come back next time. Instead, we’re given a string of largely unrelated set pieces as the script flounders around. Here, you’d hope, the story might pick up. They try their best with a small selection of shoehorned jokes, but there’s not the snappy verbal sparring you might hope for with this many talented actors on display.Īfter spending about half an hour in Janson’s compound, the youngsters end up in ‘the scorch’ – the barren outside world, a place full of disease and desperation. ![]() As a result, this impressive young cast struggles to rustle up any chemistry. Instead of talking, they tend to shout ‘run!’ or each other’s names, and don’t really interact in any other way.
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