The Maze Runner
“Get ready to run.”
A teenager with no memory of his past finds himself among a group of boys living in a walled enclosure surrounded by a massive, ever-changing maze. As he struggles to adapt to their rules and society, he begins to uncover clues that may lead to escape and the truth behind their confinement.
How The Maze Runner compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Maze Runner, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 48%
- Share of the series audience
The Maze Runner (2014) is the highest-rated of the 3 rated films in The Maze Runner series, at 7.2/10 on TMDB against a series average of 7.0/10.
It is the film that started the series, 3 years before the most recent entry, Maze Runner: The Death Cure (2018).
Its 18,443 TMDB ratings are 48% of the 38,238 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Maze Runner, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
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