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Tattoo (2002)

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Reviews Counted: 24

Fresh: 17

Rotten:7

Average Rating: 6.5/10

Genre: Dramas

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It's all as pointless as body modification.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
07/30/08
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
N/R

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Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
06/24/06
Geoff Andrew
Time Out

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Full Review Source: Empire Magazine | comment Comment
04/01/06
Empire Magazine

Stylish and engaging despite its over-reliance on the conventions of the thriller genre.

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06/04/04
Michael O'Sullivan
Washington Post
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N/R

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Full Review Source: Guardian [UK] | comment Comment
01/15/04
Guardian [UK]

Dark and interesting, the film looks very good and has an intriguing enough plot that we stay connected to it.

Full Review Source: Shadows on the Wall | comment Comment
12/05/03
Rich Cline
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12/05/03
Anton Bitel
Movie Gazette

Without the benefit of an equally manipulative script, Schwentke's attempts to appal us eventually just bore.

Full Review Source: BBC | comment Comment
11/25/03
Jamie Russell
BBC

The premise of this film might be halfway original, but the execution is wholly derivative.

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08/15/03
Janice Page
Boston Globe
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It looks great, has an excellent cast and is effectively creepy at first. But try as it does, it just winds up falling into the lame generic Hollywood homicide thriller mold.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
07/16/03
Eric Campos
Film Threat

A stylish, involving, unremittingly grim and, it must be stated, almost wholly derivative hodge-podge of hard-boiled American crime thrillers. The surfeit mood catches and holds your attention, sometimes in spite of yourself.

Full Review Source: Entertainment Today | comment Comment
07/14/03
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

An engrossing and original police procedural of bleak, steel-gray images and high style.

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07/11/03
Kevin Thomas
Los Angeles Times
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Tattoo has the same buddy-cop dynamic as the David Fincher film and, likewise, is preoccupied with beautiful lighting, rain machines and grotesque mutilations. It's watchable but it never quite rises above being a mannered knockoff.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Daily News | comment Comment
07/11/03
Glenn Whipp
Los Angeles Daily News

A nasty, intelligent and complex thriller.

Full Review Source: L.A. Weekly | comment Comment
07/09/03
John Patterson
L.A. Weekly

An assured piece of genre filmmaking that delivers the goods so stylishly it hardly matters that they aren't fresh.

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07/08/03
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

For all its oversights, absurdities and unconnected dots, Tattoo succeeds in getting under your skin.

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07/08/03
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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A very stylish variation on The Silence of the Lambs and Seven.

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07/08/03
Lou Lumenick
New York Post
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Schwentke's solid cast and a visual talent for nailing the unsavory, noir-soaked milieu compensate for some of the more gratuitous eccentricities.

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07/04/03
Michael Rechtshaffen
Hollywood Reporter
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This plodding serial-killer procedural grafts hand-me-down malevolence onto a standard rookie-veteran police yarn, the results of which yield nary a fright, let alone a goose pimple.

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07/02/03
David Ng
Village Voice
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If you had the stomach for “Seven,” you’ll enjoy the German translation.

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06/19/03
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
 
 
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