Desperate for money to pay off a debt, a man targets a wealthy family's home and plans to break in and steal a valuable gem, unaware that a second criminal has also targeted the property, and rigged it with a series of deadly traps.
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.
The Collector has a strong co-lead in Josh Stewart; empathy for this wayward character and a depth that some deftly-handled backstory provides is very welcome.
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.
New York Times
August 03, 2009
One of the more doltish entries in the torture subgenre.
