![]() ![]() ![]() Generally successful on its own as a strange survival-horror-action film for the pre-college set, but without making much sense at all as part of a larger narrative, “The Scorch Trials” should ensnare a solid chunk of its predecessor’s $340 million worldwide haul. ![]() Containing no mazes but plenty of running, the film takes the original’s surviving characters and drops them into the middle of a different type of movie, this one a desert-set zombie chase. Furious, the Arabian king responds by sacking Babylonia, riding the rival king out into the middle of the desert and leaving him to die, saying, “Allow me to show you my labyrinth.” Although lacking in Borges’ ironic symmetry, Wes Ball’s “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials,” a sequel to last year’s young-adult adaptation “The Maze Runner,” pulls the exact same switcheroo. In a 1939 short story by lifelong labyrinth aficionado Jorge Luis Borges, the king of Babylonia attempts to embarrass his guest, the king of the Arabs, by stranding him in a convoluted maze he’s constructed at his palace. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu ![]()
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