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Scanners II: The New Order

1991, Movie, R, 105 mins

Scanners II: The New Order: Review

Like THE FLY 2, another non-Cronenberg sequel to a David Cronenberg film, SCANNERS II focuses on the weakest part of the first picture--the silly story--and fails to improve it with the flashes of metaphorical brilliance that redeemed the original. Long after the dreary expository passages in SCANNERS have been forgotten, one is left with the memory of a film-within-the-film of a disturbed scanner, a bandage painted with an eye on his forehead, explaining that he drilled a ... read more leave a comment