An above-average thriller.
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04/20/03
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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
The quality of Schwentke's visuals ... provides ample compensation.
09/19/02
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.
07/16/03
Dark and interesting, the film looks very good and has an intriguing enough plot that we stay connected to it.
12/05/03
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
Top CriticIts engaging simplicity is driven by appealing leads.
05/02/03
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
Top CriticFor all its oversights, absurdities and unconnected dots, Tattoo succeeds in getting under your skin.
07/08/03
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
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
Top CriticStylish and engaging despite its over-reliance on the conventions of the thriller genre.
06/04/04
Top CriticThe premise of this film might be halfway original, but the execution is wholly derivative.
08/15/03
Top CriticA nasty, intelligent and complex thriller.
07/09/03
Schwentke'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 CriticUndoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos.
04/21/03
Without the benefit of an equally manipulative script, Schwentke's attempts to appal us eventually just bore.
11/25/03
It's all as pointless as body modification.
07/30/08
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
An engrossing and original police procedural of bleak, steel-gray images and high style.
07/11/03
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