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The second sequel to David Cronenberg's original has enough ideas and reasonably good performances in it to maintain the interest as this centers on a doctor who has developed a drug to control his children, who are of course scanners, but when his daughter discovers the drug and abuses it to cure her recurring headaches the untested side affects take hold and only her brother has the telekinetic ability to save her.Directed once again by Christian Duguay and filmed back to back with Scanners II (1991) there is at least an attempt to avoid retreading old ground with some good ideas and various subplots from the writers but it is still hampered by pedestrian directing, hokey special effects and average acting that gets even further away from Cronenberg's brilliance.These sequels feel a bit bargain basement and unnecessary and are clearly a cash-in exercise on the part of producer Pierre David but they are still enjoyable companion pieces however, Pierre David didn't stop there, he went on to direct the third sequel Scanner Cop (1994) and produce the fourth Scanner Cop II (1995), both of which were direct-to-video releases with diminishing returns.

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Reviewed by Colbridge 5 / 10

Another enjoyable companion piece to Cronenberg's original even if they do feel more bargain basement and mediocre

Reviewed by atinder 4 / 10

Worst of the 3 but still watchable

First movie is outstanding and second Scanner movie was really good, I really enjoyed both.The movie start of with a party.Then two guys, one of them is a scanner.Alex Monet is showing off, and a friend dies in a tragic accident, so he goes to Tibetan to get away.Meanwhile his siste,r Helena and her friend are walking in ally come underattack and Helena ability come into action.As Helena get home, then her father tells that he got a new drug Eph-3, which she does use even, when her father tells her not too, the drugs take over her and she start acting for evil and want Scanners to take over the world.There is only one person that can stop her, that is her brother Alex, who has to get away from other Scanner, that are trying to kill him.This movie was really poor, I did not enjoy it, this movie not that gory at all or even nasty, they even taken a death scene from first movie and made it look so cheap, other deaths silly and really badly done.There even tired to add some humour in this, which did not work at all, the jokes were not funny at all.The acting wasn't to bad for a 3rd movie in the series. I am going to give this movie 4 out of 10

Scanners III: The Takeover

1991

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

Scanners III: The Takeover

1991

Action / Horror / Sci-Fi

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Another enjoyable companion piece to Cronenberg's original even if they do feel more bargain basement and mediocre

Worst of the 3 but still watchable

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