Scanners finally gave way to this Canadian production of a made for TV movie (and it’s sequel) called Scanner Cop.
Sam is a young boy with a scanner father who gets killed in a shootout. Sam gets adopted by the cop who is at the scene and cut to him as a young police officer following in his adoptive father’s footsteps, hence the scanner cop.
Said it before and I’ll say it again I love a movie that’s casually shot in LA. I love a movie that is quickly paced and that has fun easy plot that you can follow. And I don’t know if I love this movie but this is a very fun entertaining flick in the best sense of the word.
It’s helps that it has one bad guy and a simple plot about police officers being killed. They’re being brainwashed and they now think they’re killing other people when they’re in fact killing police officers. San gets involved to help figure out who’s the mastermind, we go from there.
The movie also wisely drops the “scanner fight scene” that’s been in these. Showing two guys making weird facial expressions and we don’t know who’s winning or losing isn’t that cinematically engaging let’s be honest.
I feel like I liked this more than I should’ve. It’s low rent but it’s fuckin fun. 4 stars.
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