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Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Billy Ollie Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Allissa .Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

leathaface In the third installment the main villain is a woman scanner, who started out a normal person until she stopped taking her medication, Ephemerol-3. Eph-3 is a drug in the form of a patch that is placed behind the ear to relieve Scanners of the migraines they get when they are out in public (it must give them a headache to hear everyone's thoughts at once.) She eventually goes megalomaniacally insane and wants to take revenge on the doctors that experimented on her as a child, and ultimately rule the world with the rest of the Scanners. First she sets out to free the scanners currently being tested at Dr. Baumner's office then proceeds to kill him resulting in one of the most graphic deaths in the Scanners history. She blows up his finger then scans him until his eyeballs boil and his brain hemorrhages (you've got to see it) then finally his head explodes (of course.) There's all sorts of gory deaths. There's a syringe through the tongue, a man who dives head first into an empty pool, a drowning, an inflating (again, has to be seen) and exploding head, and a man who gets spun around in a revolving door so forcefully his face is deformed. But then it explodes anyway. This one actually probably has the highest exploding head count. The whole time her brother, the hero is trying to track her down and help her, but she evades him and eventually he is captured by her gang of scanner thugs and is pitted against her in a one-on-one battle on live TV. I don't recall him killing her, she just sort of goes back to "normal". Kind of a dull ending, but its made up for by the abundance of action and special effects. I enjoyed this one better than the second, which I thought was better than the first.

Paul Andrews The film opens with a scrolling caption informing us of what scanners are. The film begins proper at some Christmas party. Alex Monet (Steve Parrish) and his best friend are talking to some girls. The conversation turns to scanners. The girls don't believe they exist. Alex is a scanner and his friend convinces him to prove the girls wrong. So using his psychic power he makes his friend slide backwards on his own. Someone then grabs Alex and pats him on the back, Alex is surprised and loses control of his powers, his friend is jerked back violently and out of the balcony doors over the guard rail and to his death 40 odd floor to the concrete pavement below. Oops. Alex is upset, even though officially it was ruled an accident. We learn that he has traveled all over the world and finally decided to settle at a monastery in Thailand so he can learn to control his powers. Meanwhile back home his sister Helana Monet (the sexy Liliana Komorowska) is trying to lead a normal life. However see experiences severe pain and headaches. Her and Alex's father who adopted them, Dr Elton Monet (Colin Fox) is the owner of a large medical research company and is trying to invent a drug in the form of a patch which releases the drug into the bloodstream through the skin, eventually Dr Monet thinks it will help all scanners. He tells Helana about this drug, and that at this stage it's highly experimental and hasn't been tested properly. One night when the pain becomes unbearable Helana tries the drug, immediately the pain disappears. The next morning at breakfast outside a Pigeon craps on her hand, she stares at it and using her powers makes it explode. The drug has changed her from a nice, sweet girl into a wild, power-crazed murderer in mere hours! Later that night she visits Dr Baumann (Harry Hill) who is performing experiments on scanners. She frees all the scanners in his care and gives them patches so she can control their psychic powers too. From then on she sets her evil plan for world domination in action! The family lawyer Micheal (Daniel Pilon) becomes suspicious and tracks Alex down. He convinces Alex to go back home. Once back Helana realizes that Alex can stop her so she uses other scanners to try and kill him. Alex survives and enlists the help of research scientist and Helana's best friend Joyce Stone (Valerie Valois).Together they discover Helana is going to transmit her mind controlling signals using video and into tens of millions of American homes through their T.V.s! Competently but sometimes flatly directed by Christian Duguay, and called scanner force here in the UK, this was better than I expected, thanks to a script by B.J. Nelson, Julie Richard and David Preston (it took three people to write this?!) that at least keeps things moving at a fair pace and is fairly entertaining if a little silly at times. But the films main ace up it's sleeve is Liliana Komorowska as Helana, the films over the top villainness. As far as I'm aware I've never heard of her before, or seen her in any other film, but I really liked her in this. Probably better than the film deserves to be honest. She's a sexy, dominant, evil and devious, murdering scanner, by the end of the film I really wanted her to die in the most painful gory way possible, unfortunately I didn't get my wish, which seemed a bit of an anti climax. Easily the films best sequence involves her, she walks into Dr Baumanns office, dressed in a long coat, a sexy mini skirt, knee high leather boots and a white scarf, she looks classy, dominant and sexy. She teases and plays with Baumann, making his finger explode, and then finally making his head explode as well. She slowly walks around the facility killing the remaining guards using her powers before eventually making an over the top speech to her fellow scanner to try and convince them to join her, and help her carry out her evil plans. At one point she says "we shouldn't be at the bottom of the dung heap, we should be at the top!", she's class all the way through and makes the film watchable all on her own, and she gets naked in a hot tub as well! Alex makes a likable hero. We get some nudity and sex, at some points it looks like a cheap porno, especially with the busty blond nurse hitting on Alex! She is half undressed on top of Alex on a pool table, four men burst in and one says "what do we have here a rapist?", the nurse replies "oh no, he was willing!". The gore was sort of disappointing, there is only one exploding head and it's only on screen for about a second, blink and you'll miss it. Although I did like the sequence where Alex kills another scanner by spinning him around in a revolving door! There is an action sequence where Alex on his motorbike is chased by four scanners dressed like 1930's gangsters in a bus, but because of the low budget there are no other cars on the road at all, it looks a bit sad actually! The ending is a bit of a let down also, nothing more than Helana's patch falling off turning back into the sweet innocent girl she was at the start of the film. Probably worth a watch at least, if not for Liliana Komorowska's delightful villainness. Watchable, if nothing spectacular.

rlcsljo Scanners were the offspring of women that were given a drug during pregnancy. They had severe mental and emotional problems, but one great power: the ability to blow someone else's brains up if you pissed them off. I did not see Scanners II, but by number III they not only got the ability to use psychokinesis, but to control others actions--even over the television.One brother went to a monastery in Thailand to learn to control his powers, while his father gave his sister an experimental drug that gave her the same powers instantly (but for only 24 hours while wearing a patch). She becomes power mad and uses them to take over her father's drug company and next the world?Her brother finds out about his relatives deaths and returns. His sister has released a bunch of drug enhanced Scanners as hit men to prevent his displacing her.The final battle reveals which approach is stronger--it is not as straight forward as you think.Just like in Scanners (I), not enough of what scanners were famous for--blowing up heads. How expensive can this special effect be anyway?This movie is not a bad waste of viewing time and the sister is not hard on the eyes -- one brief nude scene in a hot tub.

Ysman OK, I wasn't expecting Citizen Kane but this movie rivals Corey Haim's FEVER LAKE as the worst horror movie ever. I knew the plot, acting, and script would be bad. That was exactly why I was watching it. What made this film bad was the fight scenes. The two main Scanners just gave each other dirty looks. The Scanner with the weirdest, body contorting, facial expression will rule the world. If this is how Scanning works, every little kid in the world is a Scanner. Maybe they are . . .