Review of Scanners

Scanners (1981)
4/10
Good lord the acting is poor in this film
13 October 2020
Maybe if humans had telepathic capabilities and were "scanners," they would see the pain in other people and where it came from, and empathy and forgiveness would increase in the world. Hahahahaha. Just kidding. No, of course it would be weaponized and monetized by some large corporation or the government.

This film has an interesting enough premise, but the execution is just awful, with lots of moments that make zero sense, and acting that's beyond wooden. Seriously, Stephen Lack in the lead role has the range of cardboard while he appears to read off of cue cards. There are some cool moments like the head exploding and other mental battle scenes, but everything else draped around them is weak. It needed intelligence in some other area besides the special effects.
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