Recently, I re-watched The Collector in anticipation of the just recent sequel: The Collection. I was all excited to write both reviews and have some kind of double feature on my website. To my failed memory, I already wrote the review of The Collector back on June 28, 2010 and boy
I wasn't kind.
With this second viewing of the first one, I favored it more, but then I've seen my share of grotesque/torture porn films since, so maybe I've become quite immuned to horrific scenes. For, my review was very clear in its warning to stay away for its over-the-top gruesome and shameless scenes of gore.
I will now begin my review of The Collection saying close to the same thing: STAY AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE.
Sure, the gore's still here, albeit it's actually a tad-bit milder than the first time around. But, my warning is because of how incredibly bad this copy-cat sequel is all around.
Damn, where to begin? Terrible acting? Na, how about the incoherent plot, unrealistic actions of the characters, completely stolen ideas from ten-times-better screenplays? Or the zero background, and I mean: no explanation at all, to develop the main character that should've been included in this sequel? And let's talk about the dozens of deaths for the sake of for the reasoning of sorry, maybe the multiple writers are just plain sick.
The Saw series that this steals from heavily wasn't perfect, but at least it had direction. A goal and characters to latch onto, namely the central "villain." This low-rent fare is so all-over-the-place with way too many subplots and plot-holes that it's not even recommended to fans of the first one.
"The Collector," (now replaced from the original by Randall Archer – I guess, Juan Fernández was smart to turn this down) wants to shred, literally, more than a few dozen of party-goers in order to collect one survivor. I'm only assuming this, as, again, they give such a small insight to anything going on, the viewer can only speculate what the writer/director was trying to convey.
Masked Man Collector does, in fact, get that one "special person," but, behold, he's being tracked (on his own turf) by that special unit that's off the grid by the angry father of said surviving victim. In this segment, think: Saw II meets Aliens, but only hell's depth worse.
I would be happy the charismatic thief from the original, Arkin (Josh Stewart) returned if he wasn't so dumbed down here and shares his unearthly ability to outwit someone completely prepared for victims with the new hero(ine) of the hopefully only-two-installment franchise, Elena (played very plainly by Emma Fitzpatrick.) Together, they quickly and absolutely absurdly come up with ingenious ways to survive the undocumented super-human Collector's every move.
I've seen ten men's share of terrible horror sequels, and while this isn't the absolute worse, it does rank high of awful horror film franchise's #2's #2. There is no redeeming quality of this and if anyone, myself included, had any problems with #1, wait until you get a load of this mess. SKIP IT!
With this second viewing of the first one, I favored it more, but then I've seen my share of grotesque/torture porn films since, so maybe I've become quite immuned to horrific scenes. For, my review was very clear in its warning to stay away for its over-the-top gruesome and shameless scenes of gore.
I will now begin my review of The Collection saying close to the same thing: STAY AWAY FROM THIS MOVIE.
Sure, the gore's still here, albeit it's actually a tad-bit milder than the first time around. But, my warning is because of how incredibly bad this copy-cat sequel is all around.
Damn, where to begin? Terrible acting? Na, how about the incoherent plot, unrealistic actions of the characters, completely stolen ideas from ten-times-better screenplays? Or the zero background, and I mean: no explanation at all, to develop the main character that should've been included in this sequel? And let's talk about the dozens of deaths for the sake of for the reasoning of sorry, maybe the multiple writers are just plain sick.
The Saw series that this steals from heavily wasn't perfect, but at least it had direction. A goal and characters to latch onto, namely the central "villain." This low-rent fare is so all-over-the-place with way too many subplots and plot-holes that it's not even recommended to fans of the first one.
"The Collector," (now replaced from the original by Randall Archer – I guess, Juan Fernández was smart to turn this down) wants to shred, literally, more than a few dozen of party-goers in order to collect one survivor. I'm only assuming this, as, again, they give such a small insight to anything going on, the viewer can only speculate what the writer/director was trying to convey.
Masked Man Collector does, in fact, get that one "special person," but, behold, he's being tracked (on his own turf) by that special unit that's off the grid by the angry father of said surviving victim. In this segment, think: Saw II meets Aliens, but only hell's depth worse.
I would be happy the charismatic thief from the original, Arkin (Josh Stewart) returned if he wasn't so dumbed down here and shares his unearthly ability to outwit someone completely prepared for victims with the new hero(ine) of the hopefully only-two-installment franchise, Elena (played very plainly by Emma Fitzpatrick.) Together, they quickly and absolutely absurdly come up with ingenious ways to survive the undocumented super-human Collector's every move.
I've seen ten men's share of terrible horror sequels, and while this isn't the absolute worse, it does rank high of awful horror film franchise's #2's #2. There is no redeeming quality of this and if anyone, myself included, had any problems with #1, wait until you get a load of this mess. SKIP IT!