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04/01/06
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Tattoo (2002)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:17
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.5/10
Genre: Dramas
Reviews for Tattoo
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12/05/03
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.
07/14/03
Its engaging simplicity is driven by appealing leads.
05/02/03
An above-average thriller.
04/20/03
A nasty, intelligent and complex thriller.
07/09/03
The quality of Schwentke's visuals ... provides ample compensation.
09/19/02
An engrossing and original police procedural of bleak, steel-gray images and high style.
07/11/03
Top CriticA very stylish variation on The Silence of the Lambs and Seven.
07/08/03
Top CriticAn assured piece of genre filmmaking that delivers the goods so stylishly it hardly matters that they aren't fresh.
07/08/03
Stylish and engaging despite its over-reliance on the conventions of the thriller genre.
06/04/04
Top CriticSchwentke's solid cast and a visual talent for nailing the unsavory, noir-soaked milieu compensate for some of the more gratuitous eccentricities.
07/04/03
Top CriticDark and interesting, the film looks very good and has an intriguing enough plot that we stay connected to it.
12/05/03
If you had the stomach for “Seven,” you’ll enjoy the German translation.
06/19/03
While Tattoo borrows heavily from both Seven and The Silence of the Lambs, it manages to maintain both a level of sophisticated intrigue and human-scale characters that suck the audience in.
06/12/03
For all its oversights, absurdities and unconnected dots, Tattoo succeeds in getting under your skin.
07/08/03
Top CriticUndoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos.
04/21/03
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.
07/02/03
It's all as pointless as body modification.
07/30/08
It's all gratuitous before long, as if Schwentke were fulfilling a gross-out quota for an anticipated audience demographic instead of shaping the material to fit the story.
04/18/03
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