Drawmakingg.com is a place for reviews of NEW and CLASSIC movies. For today’s episode, I wanted to review Scanners 3: The Takeover, which sadly does not fall into either of these two categories. You could certainly argue that the first Scanners is a classic movie. All the sequels are pretty obscure, so it would be quite a stretch to call any of them classics. There was only one solution. Dis Drawma Kingg must talk about Scanners 3: The Takeover from the perspective of OPPOSITE WORLD!
In Opposite World – Scanners 3 (Takeover, The) was one of the biggest hit movies of 1992. There were no cheesy special effects in this film due to its enormous budget (one of the most expensive films ever made up to that point in the 90s). Director David Cronenberg won the Oscar for best director. Oh, I forgot to mention that in the Scanners franchise of Opposite World, Cronenberg directed all of the sequels and did not direct the original.
I dislike the double-main-character aspect of Scanners 3. Wait, now I’m just talking in opposites. Back to PLANET EARTH for a second. What I thought was cool about the movie is that it basically had two equally main characters that have to battle each other at the end. Helena (portrayed by Liliana Komorowska) felt like the main character in the first half, then Alex (portrayed by Steve Parrish) felt like the main character in the second half.
Is it worth watching on Earth?: Yes, for Liliana Komorowska strongly carrying the whole movie, especially in the first half.
Is it worth watching on Opposite World?: What Cronenberg film isn’t worth watching?
Final Thoughts: 7.5/10 Crowns. -7.5/-10 Crowns in Opposite World (I stoopidly presume). I was definitely expecting a much worse movie when I put it on my rectangular TV. Scanners 3’s other main strength was that it was not boring at all. Mostly every scene kept the story reasonably exciting. Before I go, Dis Drawma Kingg has a confession. I have never seen Scanners 2! I watched these movies out of order again just like I did in episode 28 with The Strangers: Chapter 2! Maybe that means I should do a future episode about Scanners 2, an absolute classic on Opposite World!
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