Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Rickting The Collection, the sequel to the cult hit The Collector, sees the scary trap-master from the first film return- surprisingly, alongside the first film's protagonist who unusually returns alive in the sequel- and this time, we are trapped in his booby trap ridden lair. Indiana Jones may have made booby traps look exciting and fun, but they really, really aren't in this movie. This brutal and tension-filled gore- fest features some very frightening traps, and the Collector's lair is a truly nightmarish place to spend the film in. There's a very good opening scene in a nightclub and a wonderfully bad-ass ending, as well as a better final scene than normal for a horror sequel. While it's effectiveness as a horror film is definite, if you're looking for good writing, plausibility, developed characters and subtlety you should definitely look elsewhere. With such a great premise (Why don't more horror films do a group of people walking through a booby-trapped area aside from the Saw films who completely waste the idea?), there's a sense of wasted potential here. Still, this is better than the somewhat tedious first film as the central idea is more compelling, and if this franchise is ever continued the villain could have a bright future ahead as a horror icon. 6/10

MaximumMadness I'm not going to try and convince you that "The Collection"- the sequel to the underrated home-invasion thriller "The Collector"- is anything outside of exploitative "horror porn" for gore-hounds and fans of the original film. Because it's not. It's ridiculous from start-to- finish. Its plot merely a flimsy framework to justify a roller-coaster ride into depravity. Its characters ranging from generic canon-fodder to over-the-top caricatures. And its focus is almost exclusively on throwing as much nonstop gore and bat-crap insane imagery in the audiences face at every twist and turn.And I freaking love it!No, seriously. I will go on record saying that I think "The Collection" is just as good as the original in basically every single way because of one thing... honesty. This movie knows exactly what it is and what it wants to be, and it has no qualms about hiding this fact. It doesn't aspire to be more than it could possibly be and doesn't try to build a false facade of importance. It's up-front and in your face with its intentions. The creative team of Marcus Dunstan and Patrick Melton set out to make a completely psychotic sequel to their outstanding original, and by god they succeeded. And you're either in for the ride, or you're left in the dust.Some time after being taken by the mysterious "Collector", Arkin (Josh Stewart) manages to escape his captivity and flee to safety while his captor is distracted massacring teens in a memorable and wild opening sequence. But his freedom comes at a price- in his place, the Collector kidnaps Elena (Emma Fitzpatrick), the daughter of a wealthy and influential family. Soon after, Arkin is approached with a bargain- if he can use his knowledge of the Collector to help a team of hired mercenaries save Elena, he will be greatly rewarded. And so, Arkin must travel back to the lair of his enemy and infiltrate it if he has any hope of saving the girl. But what he and the others will find inside will be beyond anything they could have imagined, as they not only face the Collector himself... but learn what he does with his "collection."The movie fundamentally works thanks to its unapologetic dedication to giving audiences virtually everything they could want out of a sequel and then some, to the point it borders on self-parody at times... and yet, it always feels true to itself. The film's nuts. But it's nuts by design and it's clear everyone involved is having a blast putting on the craziest show possible. The body-count is bigger. The death- traps way more intricate. And the stakes suitably raised. From an opening murder-spree for the ages through intense sequences of characters stalking the halls of the Collector's lair to enormous brawls against the villain... it's everything the first film was, but ramped up many times. It's a twisted combo of action and bodily horror that I'd favorably compare to similar stellar-sequels such as "Aliens" or "Crank 2: High Voltage"... films that take what came before and give us roided-up, strung-out, no holds barred follow-ups.The core creative team is almost entirely intact and it's fun seeing where they take the story. Returning director/co-writer Marcus Dunstan is at the top of his game and revels in letting his twisted imagination loose on-screen. Much like in the original, his sharp sense of movement and composition lends itself well to the material, and he delivers some truly creative and captivating sequences of carnage that will leave you both laughing and completely revolted all at the same time. The script co-written with Melton is furious and quickly paced, with enough twists and turns and shocking developments to sink a ship. It's breathlessly action-packed and filled with plenty of scares and dark beats of humor. The performances are all fantastic, though Stewart and Fitzpatrick steal the show in basically every scene. They are both top-notch talents and elevate the wickedly fun script with their roles. I also admired the likes of Christopher McDonald and Lee Tergesen is strong supporting roles.Were I to point out any negatives, it's that the film does occasionally outreach its resources, leading to a few awkward moments and a handful of unintentionally amusing sequences where the effects don't quite hold up. This is clearly a $30 million film being made on a $10 million budget, and it shows with some wonky uses of cheap-looking digital stock-elements and obvious prosthetic "gore gags" that give themselves away. There's even a few key moments where you can see bursts of blood shooting out several feet in front of people that are being "killed" or even see where the blood-tubes are attached to the props because the film had to be made down-and-dirty with low-budget techniques... that don't hold up all that well when you pay close attention.Still, this is only a minor nitpick, as it doesn't really impact the film all that much outside of making a few deaths look slightly shoddy. And it definitely doesn't detract from the fact that I found "The Collection" to be a completely entertaining and very whacked-out sequel. Yes, the fact that it dives full-on into craziness and leaves logic and realism behind might turn off a lot of viewers. But I can't help but give my full recommendation to fans of the original. "The Collection" is just pure visceral fun. And thus, I give it the same score I gave the original- a very good 8 out of 10.

erolsabadosh I enjoyed the first film enough to check out the sequel but just barely. The Collector had a handful of decent moments peppered throughout a plot-hole riddled story and while some of the ideas were better than the execution it was slightly above average. This sequel is extremely average and forgettable. If you thought the premise of the first film was pretty far-fetched you haven't seen anything. All logic is thrown out of the window this time around and because the characters act without a shred of credibility it's difficult to really care what happens. It's still entertaining and funny to watch for its sheer stupidity but it would have probably benefited from either being more self-aware and revelling in its silliness or being more harrowing and gritty. As such it falls somewhere in the middle; moments of grisly violence and threat don't make much of an impact because nothing about the script is realistic. It's straight-faced absurdity with seemingly no intentional comedy. I did appreciate the continuity from the first film though, and the return of Josh Stuart's character Arkin was definitely welcome but this was a very different beast more focused on over-the-top action. One thing this film has in common with the first though is that there is absolutely no real horror here. Nothing about this film is scary, but there certainly are some nasty moments of violence although as I said it's not even close to being disturbing because of how silly it is. If you're bored and you're in the mood to watch something that's entertaining because of how stupid it is then this can be enjoyable, I definitely didn't hate it, but I didn't really like it either.

Leofwine_draca THE COLLECTION, a sequel to the torture porn flick THE COLLECTOR, is a mild step up from the first and a little more entertaining - if you can call watching people getting killed in increasingly gruesome ways entertaining.The story sees the return of Arkin, the erstwhile hero of the first movie, as he manages to escape from the clutches of the devious killer only to find himself forced at gunpoint to undertake a new, even more dangerous job: he's forced to lead a team into the collector's home, a long-abandoned hotel, to rescue a kidnapped girl.What follows is decidedly more action-orientated than the first film, and on a bigger scale. The opening scene, a massacre in a nightclub, seems to be a nod to BLADE. The traps are bigger and broader here, and the bloodshed flows in equal measure, although this seems less interested in the depiction of pain and more keen to show dismemberment and gore on a large scale. Still, THE COLLECTION is fast paced and has a great ending, so it's not all doom and gloom. Josh Stewart is a welcome return from the first film, although newcomer Christopher McDonald steals his scenes with an assured and confident performance.