The Collection Reviews
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Austin American-Statesman
The Collection never hits audiences in the stomach with any immediate sense of danger, and the dialogue and most of the performances feel entirely too campy for the movie to actually be taken seriously. Maybe that is the point, but I don't think so.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Examiner.com
The Collection is brainless, inconsistent, and full of holes. It does offer a ton of gore, but there is absolutely nothing else to enjoy here other than that.
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| Original Score: 2/10
Boston Phoenix
Just buckets of the same old boring gore.
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| Original Score: 1/4
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Absent any real suspense or characters, its sole purpose is inventive gore, and I guess it deserves credit for achieving the low goal it set for itself.
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| Original Score: 1.5/4
Mania.com
Dunstan mistakes unpleasantness for fear, reveling in gore for its own sake and destroying any anticipation or suspense in the bargain.
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| Original Score: C
Blu-ray.com
Comes off as a disappointment, failing to live up to its sequel potential by advancing the conflict and expanding murderous appetites in an exciting, imaginative manner.
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| Original Score: C
An energetic but utterly weightless exercise in slice-and-dice cinema.
A murkily directed bore "dealing" with the subject of serial killers and revenge ...
indieWIRE
The whole thing is a fairly yawn-a-rific affair until the vengeful prologue establishes a wicked role reversal, hinting at the better movie that filmmakers more interested in storytelling would have made.
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| Original Score: C-
HollywoodChicago.com
One cannot deny that Marcus Dunstan's completely illogical mess of a horror film certainly never bores. It's too bafflingly stupid to be truly boring.
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| Original Score: 1.0/5.0
RedEye
The suspense-free, deeply unpleasant The Collection pummels and bloodies numerous base aspects of competent filmmaking and worthwhile moviegoing.
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| Original Score: 0/4
Reeling Reviews
...the film turn into just another "Saw" sequel (minus the flimsy moralizing)...
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| Original Score: D+
7M Pictures
things quickly reach a level of silliness that fits more in a comedy or spoof than an actual horror film
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| Original Score: 2/5
The director Marcus Dunstan and his co-writer, Patrick Melton, strike again.
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| Original Score: 2/4
There's a bad movie every week, but it takes a special one to make you start anticipating the decline of Western civilization.
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| Original Score: 0/4
jackiekcooper.com
Not scary but rather is just a disgusting exercise in gore, dismemberment and bloodletting.
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| Original Score: 0/10
