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Daniel Quinn

Patrick Kilpatrick

Khrystyne Haje

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Robert Forster

Brenda Swanson

Jerry Potter

Jewel Shepard

Evan MacKenzie

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Kane Hodder

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David Cronenberg

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Robert Lansing Parker

Pierre David

Richard Bowers

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Noël A. Zanitsch

Fred Mata

Cathy Henderson

René Malo

Rodney W. Smith

Joey Paul Jensen

Kitty Olisky

Ashley Friedman

Steve Gehrke

Lawrence Goebel

Patrick Rand

Susanna Bernstein

Chanel Salzer

Terri L. Schaetzle

Meyer Shwarzstein

Tom McSweeney

Joni Avery

Tom Jewett

Erik Stabenau

Denney Pierce

Thomas L. Callaway

Jeffrey S. Farley

John Carl Buechler

Chris Robbins

Deborah McNulty

Bob Kay

Leland Darryl

Reed Anthony

David Rowden

Cole S. McKay

James McCalmont

Mark E. Trembath

Michael Weaver

Charmian Espinoza

This sequel marks the end of the series...or does it? The rookie cop Staziak (Daniel Quinn) is now a plain clothes detective (he must have had one good year), and uses his scanning capabilities to rout criminals and foil evildoers. We meet an evil scanner (Patrick Kilpatrick)- yes, another one- who has escaped from a mental ward and is trying to kill Staziak. It seems he can also suck the "lifeforce" out of other scanners. You see the scanner finale coming as scanner cop and evil scanner do scanner battle.

In the beginning of the film, Staziak fools a kidnapper into thinking Staziak is an accomplice, not a cop. He does this by "scanning." The problem is the director uses the exact same special effect from "Scanner Cop," but in a very different scanning context. Another complaint I have had about the entire series, and I have seen all the entries, is that the Scanner power is never explained. We see scanners command others to do their will, we see scanners getting scanned, but what specifically does "scanning" entail? Reading minds? This question has never been adequately explained, but now machines can be scanned as well?

The good scanner vs. Evil scanner plot has been done, yet it is still trotted out for this video. This came out a few years ago, without a sequel, but after witnessing the rebirth of movie series like James Bond, Halloween, Friday the 13th, etc., I am not holding my breath. In a complete pageant of unoriginality, every single episode of this film series has had an exploding head, but none of them matched the gore of the first film. This showdown is underwhelming. Also known as "Scanners 4: The Showdown."

Scanner Cop II (1995) Original Trailer [FHD]

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Brenda Swanson

Jerry Potter

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