Reviews

Before I pick apart the movie completely, I'd like to rate it on it as a movie itself. It was AMAZING. They did a phenomenal job with the suspense and it kept me on the edge of my seat from the very beginning. The characters were a bridge between funny and outright mysterious. But. If you've read the books, this was not the books. Yes they kept the title. They kept the character names (Except Aris' name...they said Aaron a couple times...) The main part I'd like to address is how Wes Ball took the original Cranks bringing a horrific nightmare fuel theme into the books to complete Zombie Clichés. Not only were the Cranks zombies, but I found the scene with the almost evil dead style vine creatures completely unnecessary. In the books I couldn't get over the horrific image of the Cranks because they weren't zombies--they were people gone completely mad. This movie took the book and burned it. There was no aspect of this movie that covered anything in the book which makes me fear for The Death Cure. While I loved Brenda and Jorge's characters in this, they didn't really fit that of the book in so much the sense that they weren't even immune. They also ditched the whole names-based-on-famous-historical-figures thing, given Teresa's background. As I read The Kill Order i began to feel that DeeDee was Teresa. To be honest there's not enough I can say about this film other then, It did not advance the plot in any sense, it made no sense, and it killed the most amazing scenes of the book. However, it was a truly amazing movie in itself. Suspenseful, action-thriller. It exceeded my expectations as a movie, but as an adaptation it failed worse than any other adaptation of a book ever.