After having just suffered through the 1981 "Scanners" movie, I opted against my better judgment and actually sat down to continue on with watching "Scanners II: The New Order".
A mistake on my account, this I will gladly admit. But I read some reviews and were lead to believe that this 1991 sequel was better than the original first movie. Now, of course taste and preference in movies is individual, and I found out the hard way that "Scanners II: The New Order" most certainly wasn't better or more entertaining for me than the original movie.
I zoned out of the storyline pretty quickly in, because I just couldn't get into the atmosphere and the entire thing that writer B. J. Nelson was trying to push here through his script and storyline. I found it incredibly difficult to find enjoyment in the dumpster fire that was playing on the screen, and ended up giving up on the movie not even half way through.
I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, not that it really mattered, because I didn't care what was transpiring on the screen, much less have any interest in the characters that milled about.
Visually then the effects in the movie were definitely a step up from the previous movie ten years earlier. That counted for something, I suppose. But just not enough to make up for the total lack of an interesting script or storyline.
With having suffered through not even halfway through "Scanners II: The New Order", then my foray into the "Scanners" franchise comes to a screeching halt. I am not even going to bother with the movies that came after this 1991 sequel.
My rating of "Scanners II: The New Order" lands on a two out of ten stars.
A mistake on my account, this I will gladly admit. But I read some reviews and were lead to believe that this 1991 sequel was better than the original first movie. Now, of course taste and preference in movies is individual, and I found out the hard way that "Scanners II: The New Order" most certainly wasn't better or more entertaining for me than the original movie.
I zoned out of the storyline pretty quickly in, because I just couldn't get into the atmosphere and the entire thing that writer B. J. Nelson was trying to push here through his script and storyline. I found it incredibly difficult to find enjoyment in the dumpster fire that was playing on the screen, and ended up giving up on the movie not even half way through.
I wasn't familiar with the cast ensemble in the movie, not that it really mattered, because I didn't care what was transpiring on the screen, much less have any interest in the characters that milled about.
Visually then the effects in the movie were definitely a step up from the previous movie ten years earlier. That counted for something, I suppose. But just not enough to make up for the total lack of an interesting script or storyline.
With having suffered through not even halfway through "Scanners II: The New Order", then my foray into the "Scanners" franchise comes to a screeching halt. I am not even going to bother with the movies that came after this 1991 sequel.
My rating of "Scanners II: The New Order" lands on a two out of ten stars.