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04/13/08
Scanners (1981)
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Reviews Counted: 25
Fresh: 19
Rotten:6
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Runtime: 1 hr 47 mins
Genre: Science-Fiction/Fantasy
Synopsis: Scanners are men and women born with incredible telepathic and telekinetic powers. This breed of superbrains was developed as an accidental side effect of a tranquilizer administered to some women during pregnancy. Cameron Vale is one... [More]
Starring: Stephen Lack, Michael Ironside, Jennifer O'Neill, Patrick McGoohan
Director: David Cronenberg
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Reviews for Scanners
Like Tod Browning, Cronenberg doesn't have the stylistic resources to match the forcefulness of his ideas, but his movies remain in the mind for the pull of their private obsessions.
06/05/07
Top Critic Ironside is fantastic as the lethal Revok, helping make this a popular cult favorite.
06/05/07
Top Critic
All this should give fans of David Cronenberg's previous pix their money's worth, although lack of any rooting interest vitiates any possible suspense and highly elegant visual style works against much shock value.
06/05/07
Top Critic
Part conspiracy thriller, part political tract, it is Cronenberg's most coherent movie to date, drawing a dark (but bland) world in which corporate executives engineer human conception to produce ever more powerful mental samurai.
06/24/06
A mind-blowing telekinesis thriller that immediately put Michael Ironside on the map as one of the most intense actors around.
02/20/06
Scanners is so lockstep that we are basically reduced to watching the special effects, which are good but curiously abstract, because we don't much care about the people they're happening around.
10/23/04
Top Critic The quality of the film's inventiveness is not always of the first order, which is too bad because Mr. Cronenberg does seem to be a director-writer of some style.
08/30/04
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This relatively early work from Cronenberg shows all his signature stylistics in full bloom.
03/10/03
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