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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Slant MagazineSlant MagazineWhereas the later "Saw" films were hampered by bloated backstory, various ostentatious agendas, and self-satisfied sadism, The Collection feels utterly unburdened by anything but its lean, fleet-footed plot.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyClark CollisEntertainment WeeklyClark CollisRemarkably, the result manages to be both more preposterous and more efficient than its predecessor, with a couple of deaths occurring so swiftly they border on the subliminal.
- 60Genre aficionados are likely to revel in every crunched bone, gratuitous decapitation and slow-motion iron-maiden impaling.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckUnfortunately, the Collector simply isn't a very interesting screen villain. Clad in a black mask that reveals only his eyes and mouth, he mainly communicates by heavy breathing. It makes one yearn for the perversely witty chatter of Jigsaw.
- 50Boston GlobeWesley MorrisBoston GlobeWesley MorrisThe Collection is an honest title. The movie is just a lot of other people's greatest hits.
- 42The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsIt also has enough nutty energy and oddball touches - "The Wire's" Andre Royo shows up as a gun-toting, faux-hawk-sporting badass - that it's never boring. Dumb, gross, gratuitous, and overly familiar, sure. But never boring.
- Melton and Dunstan have created little more than a hollow shell for an empty box.
- 0San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThe Collection is bloody, disgusting and ridiculous, but the one thing it's not is horror, not real horror, not in the sense of tense or scary. It's not cinema, either. It's not even fun.