The last battle scene made my day

Some cheese and campy acting keep this from being truly brilliant, but only just...a solid 8/10 for me.

I've had a long history with David Cronenberg's Scanners, but this was my first time watching it. By long history, I mean I first saw shots of Michael Ironside popping veins at 10 or 11 years old in a magazine about the Unexplained. Obviously, I wanted to see this, but where and how? There may have been a Mad Magazine parody too, but still no way to see it. And whenever I thought about Scanners over the years (usually after watching another Cronenberg), I couldn't make it happen. Well, we live in a different world now. My first surprise is that I thought there'd be a lot more head-exploding action, and how early that iconic shot comes. Unless we count the computer as a brain, I guess. One of the weirdest hacking scenes in movie history, and I'm counting all of Hackers! So not the incredible classic I had imagined it to be, but I like this world of secret telepaths and how the story never goes where you think it will.