I honestly didn't see him as Thomas until I watched this film, he was that good. In the first installment of Maze Runner, the film diverged and was disappointing, but the second film followed the book to a tee, and was terrific, what would happen in the third? Right off the bat, as I feared, the story is completely different and very few elements from the book are even used in the film, however, in the rarest of rare cases, the way the film makers re-wrote the story, actually improved upon it! Dylan O'Brien returns as Thomas and this is the film where his character really broke out and came to life as the hero we see in the novels.
When they just take pieces and basically write their own story, it's usually an epic failure, i.e. I have found that when film makers try to stick to the original story, as they did in The Hunger Games, the films are terrific. I obviously get excited when something I've read hits the big screen, even though I know the film usually won't be as good as the book was.
The Maze Runner series was one of the best book series I've read in the last few years.
