With Lack, however, it's difficult to tell whether his expression is supposed to communicate love or the intestinal discomfort caused by a piece of bad meat. The film grows tiresome as Vale runs around trying to find Revok and elude Revok's henchmen. The decent people who come into contact with Vale usually end up dead while the bad guys, who presumably know about his psychic abilities, always point their guns at his face. This gives Vale ample time to look at them, scan them, dislodge their guns and fling them through walls.
Nobody ever figures out that scanners are best shot in the back.
Cronenberg sets up a finale scene between Vale and Revok that reminds one of going to the community pool and being repulsed by the legs of elderly women. As they scan one another each seems to contract an aggressive form of varicose veins. Blood begins spurting all over the place until Cronenberg runs out of special effects money and the movie ends.