Welcome to Movie Shortens. Follow us today to a 2016 American science fiction film,
based on the novel of the same name by James Patterson called: Maximum Ride.
Before we start, be aware: there are spoilers! A man named Jeb enters a room in The School in
Death Valley and approaches a girl in a cage named Max. He releases her and tells her that she needs
to come with him quietly. He takes her to a truck containing other kids. He checks to see if they're
all ok but suddenly alarms sound out and the lights go on. As he drives away, a boy named Ari
runs out of the building, calling out “no Dad”. Some years later, Max is running through the
forest, chased by men with flashlights. She stops at a cliff edge and as the men get closer,
she jumps off. Suddenly, she wakes from this dream. She gets out of bed and carves a tally mark
into her dressing table. As she walks past the stairs, she is overtaken by a little boy racing
downstairs. She enters the bathroom and speaks with a guy named Fang who is brushing his teeth.
She tells him off for leaving a mess. As he walks away, we notice two huge scars on his back.
They live at a place called the Nest in the Rocky Mountains. Max meets Fang again in the kitchen
and he gives her a cup of coffee. He tells her that Iggy wants to talk to her about inventory.
Three kids are having breakfast when Max walks in. Nudge is planning on slipping out to go shopping
but Angel has telepathically informed Max. Gazzy is making a bomb. He tells her that it’s safe
but he’s making it in case the Erasers are sent to find them.
Max takes a component of the bomb and warns Nudge not to even think about leaving the house.
Iggy informs Max and Fang that they only have about 6 months worth of food remaining.
They seem to be advocating leaving the Nest but Max disagrees. She says that Jeb
put them there for a reason - to be safe. Max enters a study, looks at a picture of Jeb
and wonders how she can do this without him. The kids are still sitting at the breakfast table.
Nudge gets up angrily and Gazzy leaves to find the component
when Angel won’t tell him where it is. Suddenly, Angel starts to hear voices in her head. She
leaves the house and walks through the forest. Nudge is busy with needlework when Iggy walks in
to reassure her that Max cares about her. Angel spots men in the forest and sends a telepathic
message to the others, who all rush out to find her. Max has a vision of Angel being taken and
jumps into the air and sprouts wings. She flies to the men and frees Angel. Max leans over her
body but is then attacked by a guy who tells her that they don’t want her any more - they just
want Angel. He kicks her in the head and she falls unconscious. She dreams of falling off the cliff
and her drawing when she was a little girl. She is approached by Ari. She tells him that this
is a picture of her family. Jeb - Ari’s father - is also in the picture and Ari tells her that Jeb
is planning something big - his job is really important. Suddenly Ari is told that this area
is off limits and he should stay away. Max’s dream continues with her falling from the cliff
and Angel calling her name. She wakes up with a start and Fang tells her that they don’t know
where Angel is. Iggy says that they must have had some kind of aircraft. Max says that they need to
get her back from The School. She says that Jeb knew where it was so they search his study and
find a map. They propose to leave and rescue her. Gazzy and Nudge have to stay behind as they can’t
fly as fast as the others but they aren’t happy about it. Iggy will stay with them but wonders
why they took Angel but not the rest of them? Maybe they knew about Angel’s special powers.
Max also tells them that it was Ari who knocked her out - he has been turned into an Eraser.
Max and Fang fly across the forest as a helicopter arrives at the school. Some
men get out carrying Angel. The leader asks for Ari and we see Ari is outside the Nest.
Inside, Nudge is on Jeb’s computer looking for their personal records.
Until now they had assumed they were test tube babies but Nudge finds an address in New York
that she suspects is her mother’s house. Iggy hears a voice in his head and locks the doors.
He looks around and finds Ari who knocks him out. The noise alerts Gazzy and Nudge who try to fight
him but have to hide. Gazzy throws his bomb at Ari and Iggy grows wings and manages to escape
with the other two before the house explodes. In the wreckage, Ari forces his way out.
Meanwhile, Angel is being examined by a team of Doctors. They perform experiments on her but the
leader has them stop for now. Elsewhere, Max and Fang continue their journey and rest at Utah.
Suddenly Max hears a girl being attacked by a guy. She decides to help the girl although Fang tells
her that they are supposed to be keeping a low profile. The guy tries to fight her but she stops
him easily until the guy shoots her with a rifle. Fang arrives and pushes the guy through a window.
The girl, who is named Ella, offers to take Max to see her mother who is a Doctor. As she
goes to fetch her mum, Fang tries to treat Max himself. He disappears outside before Ella and
her mum arrive. As Dr Martinez tends to her, Max has flashbacks about being in hospital before.
She asks for Jeb and tries to fight the medics off before they manage to gas her.
Max wakes up in Ella’s room. She looks around and sees Fang outside the window. Ella walks in and
thanks her for her help the night before. They eat pancakes and Dr Martinez gives her fresh clothes.
She then asks to meet her for a further examination in the clinic after breakfast.
During this time, Iggy and the kids are walking through town, observed by Ari.
Dr Martinez notices that Max heals quickly. She examines an X-Ray and finds something that looks
like a tracking chip embedded in Max’s skin. She tells her that it must have been there a long time
so cannot remove it. She also notices the scars on her back. She goes on to tell
Max that they will always be there if she needs their help - no questions asked.
As Max returns to the bedroom, she reveals her wings and examines them. She then cuts holes
in her new clothes so that her wings can spread and climbs out the window to meet Fang. As they
walk away, she seems angry with Fang. They fly onwards and arrive in a cabin near Lake Mead.
Fang looks for power as Max lights some candles. They discuss what happened with Ella and Max says
that if she hadn’t helped then that would have made her no better than the Erasers.
They suddenly hear someone outside and as they go to investigate, they find that it is Iggy,
Gazzy and Nudge. They all go inside. Back at the school, Angel is sleeping. Dr Rosen
explains that since Angel was taken, the others are experiencing increased levels of stress.
But despite their experiments, they have been unable to determine the reason
for the variance in her brain. The leader tells them to devise a new series of tests.
In the cabin, Max tells the others about her chip but as they don’t seem to know where she is,
they assume that it isn’t a tracking chip. They tell her that Ari came back. They knew
it was him because he still has the scar that Max gave him. Ari was jealous of Max
as she was Jeb’s favorite. They decide to go to sleep to get some rest.
The next day, Max wakes early and leaves the cabin. At the lake, she finds Ari and they
fight. Ari manages to pin her down but she is rescued by Fang and the others. He is joined by
another group of Erasers and he activates a device which sends out a high pitched noise, causing them
all to drop to the ground screaming. Angel is locked in a cage and the leader
approaches. He tells her not to worry as her whole family will be reunited soon enough.
Max wakes in a cage and checks that the others are present and ok. Gazzy notices
Angel who calls out to them. She apologizes and tells Max not to listen to him. As Max asks who
she’s talking about, Ari walks in. She is taken to see the leader, who it turns out is Jeb. He
explains that they have been monitoring all of their physical health and Angel developed some
anomalies which they needed to examine. He goes on to say that they were kept at the school until
they could be sure that their DNA was stable. Then they were taken to the house to allow them
to develop physically and emotionally. He left so that they could develop independence. He says that
what he did was best for everyone. He tells her that now that the illusion has been shattered,
she will have to stay here. He then offers her a cookie. As she looks down she sees a note on
the plate telling her to trust him - she doesn’t know everything. She pushes the plate towards him
and walks away. Ari drags her back to the cage but she manages to take his key card.
She tells the others about Jeb and says that they should trust him. As they all argue about this,
Max speaks telepathically to Angel saying that they can’t trust Jeb and to tell the others
that they are getting out of there tonight. Dr Rosen goes to the Lab and reports to the
Director that Jeb is emotionally attached to the subjects. The Director says that
the subjects are not human and it is a mistake to believe that they are. They are expendable
and if this gets out of control, then there are other facilities and other products and they
can simply pick up and move on. She says that Jeb has forgotten that they are dangerous weapons.
Ari goes to see Max. She escapes from her cage and hits him in the face. She hands the key card
to Fang and they escape whilst Ari chases Max. Izzy, Angel and Nudge head for the main power
unit to shut it down, while Fang and Gazzy go to the chemical room. The breaches trigger the alarms
and Jeb orders the Erasers to be sent in. Gazzy quickly creates an explosive and they leave.
Max is pursued by the Erasers and is finally cornered by Ari. The others run in and as Max
somersaults over the Erasers, Gazzy throws his bomb at them and it explodes. Jeb comes in shortly
after to find Ari and the Erasers are all dead. Max and the others watch on as Jeb tells them that
they don’t understand - they’re not ready. She tells him not to look for them - this experiment
is over. She sprouts wings and flies away. Some time after, they come out of the forest
overlooking a city. Suddenly, Max collapses. She wakes in Fang’s arms who asks what happened. She
explains that her head felt as if it was going to explode and then she had an image of a file
in New York. They agree to all go to New York to figure out what it all meant.
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