Desperate to repay his debt to his ex-wife, an ex-con plots a heist at his new employer's country home, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
One of the more doltish entries in the torture subgenre.
– Jeannette Catsoulis,
New York Times,
3 Aug 2009
rotten:
This is the sort of cheap bilking that separates completists from masochists; the brief suffering onscreen is nothing compared with the agony scary-movie buffs will feel after being so thoroughly cheated.
– David Fear,
Time Out New York,
5 Aug 2009
rotten:
A sub-Saw knockoff that manages to be brutal yet monotonous, not to mention monstrously unpleasant.
– Owen Gleiberman,
Entertainment Weekly,
5 Aug 2009
rotten:
If you didn't already know The Collector was written by two Saw franchise hacks, and directed by one of them, it would soon become as obvious as a fish hook to the face.
– Peter Howell,
Toronto Star,
30 Oct 2009
rotten:
Watching The Collector becomes an experience not so much of dread as big virtual ouches.