>*"All right. We're gonna do this the scanner way. I'm gonna suck your brain dry!"*

Professor X origin story. The telepathy concept is interesting but what this movie is lacking is a good story and compelling characters. The characters are very surface level and hard to root for. The most interesting to me was Darryl (Michael Ironside) but the movie chooses to focus on Cameron (Stephen Lack) instead. There's one gory sequence of a head exploding at the start that was amazing and unexpected but then it bored the hell out of me until the third act. It has some cool Cronenberg visuals but not nearly enough of them to call it a good time. Loved the score and weird noises which mirrors what the Scanners hear. Good performances generally but Michael Ironside was the standout, he was fearsome and reminded me of Jack Nicholson at times, I could be fooled into thinking they're brothers. Cool duel at the end with nice gore and effects but I wanted more.