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 hole through his own skull to let the demonic voices escape, or the
image of a high-strung scanner who's channeled his neuroses into sculpture perched precariously atop his giant reproduction...
Released:
1991
Rated:
R
Length:
105 mins