Clancy Gray, one of the first survivors of Idiopathic Adolescent Acute Neurodegeneration, overthrows his father to begin mass experimentation on fellow psis. Posing as a heroic Rebel Leader, Clancy has countless psis tricked and rounded up for study in facilities where they are molded into his soldiers. When he learns of heroine Ruby Daly's ability to alter memories, Clancy copies her technique before trying to rape Ruby, and when Ruby resists, Clancy attempts to kill her friends and rewrite her mind to be his "perfect" lover while his conquers the planet with his slave psi army.
Critical Dissonance: The film has received largely negative reviews from critics (17% on Rotten Tomatoes, 39 out of 50 on Metacritic) for being a derivative YA adaptation without much to distinguish itself from the others, but audiences have been much more forgiving (76% on RT, 5.5 on MC).
Joseph Moore is a wealthy businessman running for President of the United States on an anti-psi platform. Arranging terrorist attacks that kill dozens, Moore blames these attacks on psis to justify his policy of sending them to his "personal training" compound. There the children are abused and treated like animals, and can be sold to Gregory Mercer as slave soldiers.
Gregory Mercer is the leader of the international crime syndicate Blue Star, dealing in crimes such as assassinations and Human Trafficking. Abducting children around the world, Mercer would have them experimented on to try give them psi powers, resulting in many of them dying. Manipulating the survivors into being loyal to him, Mercer used them as a wet work team before several of them escaped. Mercer works with Moore to help arrange his terrorist attacks so he have access to more psi children so he sell them as slave soldiers.
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