BlazeLime Strong and Moving!

AnhartLinkin This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.

PiraBit if their story seems completely bonkers, almost like a feverish work of fiction, you ain't heard nothing yet.

Caryl It is a whirlwind of delight --- attractive actors, stunning couture, spectacular sets and outrageous parties. It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

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.

Poptart_Psycho After enjoying the first movie The Collector I was slightly worried as we all know horror sequels always come up short, saying that Marcus Dunstan did a good job.Arkin is back This time the movie focuses on Eleanor a girl with a very rich father. We see flashbacks of her in a car incident when she was a child possibly resulting in her deafness.The Collection starts slightly similar... Eleanor her friend Misty and Josh go to an underground club, whilst there the girls separate. Eleanor finds a trunk in a room opening it up to discover Arkin who then runs off. Meanwhile the deranged killer is letting of his traps in the club killing everyone par Eleanor who he collects.Unfortunately for the mad man Eleanor's rich father has hired a bunch of mercenaries to hunt down the killer and free his daughter. The group also manage to blackmail Arkin into leading them to his lair, there led to a abandoned hotel. Multi stories high and booby trapped the crazy the group are in a race against time to free Eleanor.If you liked the first you wont be disappointed, there is the same amount of gore and suspense

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.

Adam Peters (39%) I wasn't too sure if this was the original (which I haven't seen) or the sequel, but to be honest I really don't think it matters in the slightest; though why didn't they just call it "The collector 2" is beyond me. What we have here is a rehash of 80's slasher gore mayhem, only the killer here wants to kill everyone he possibly can get his claws on, not just a select few teens. Most of the film takes place in a dark, grim building in or at least near a town/city that appears to be a magnet for many, many disco kids. Only when the collector strikes not one of them appears to make a swift escape. Plus the fact there's always one person outside every night spot throwing up into the street, so couldn't they raise some kind of an alarm after hearing their friends getting chopped up from inside? You can tell this is from some of the minds of the later Saw movies, not because it is shocking or scary, but because it's just so stupid. At certain parts you wonder how nasty is it going to get, well the answer is not really all that much. Sure there's some blood and gore, but this is too low rent Hollywood to get upset about. Even thought this isn't very good, I'd still kind of like to see the original, which is at least something positive to say.