Is The Maze Runner good ?

Being a reader, and the majority of readers will say the same thing, the books are always better.

The movies just cannot get all the dialogue, the nuances, the locations, back stories, etc. In a book there is drama in the narrative as the author describes say a room and the antagonist thinking what he is going to do and and what he is looking for etc etc. None of that can be done visually to excite the viewer in the theater so they add dramatic music and stretch the storyline having someone just miss finding the antagonist and eventually getting killed so they don't alert anyone. That character isn't even in the book but you have to excite the people who paid to view.

That's why the movie credits say based on the book meaning the central storyline comes from the book but not every thing you see was in the book. Lots of exciting things in the book are never ever in the movie and that makes fans of the books irate.

Movies can be very good but you are always losing story and characters from the book. In my years of reading, I have only seen 1 movie that followed the book exactly. I've also seen one best selling book made into a movie and they miscast the characters horribly and the director was awful nothing like the book and the movie bombed.

You don't have to have read the book to enjoy the movie but it doesn't sound as if you are a reader anyway so enjoy the movie.