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05/25/03
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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
Without the benefit of an equally manipulative script, Schwentke's attempts to appal us eventually just bore.
11/25/03
The premise of this film might be halfway original, but the execution is wholly derivative.
08/15/03
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
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04/01/06
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
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
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01/15/04
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
A nasty, intelligent and complex thriller.
07/09/03
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.
07/11/03
An engrossing and original police procedural of bleak, steel-gray images and high style.
07/11/03
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12/05/03
A very stylish variation on The Silence of the Lambs and Seven.
07/08/03
Top CriticFor all its oversights, absurdities and unconnected dots, Tattoo succeeds in getting under your skin.
07/08/03
Top CriticIt's all as pointless as body modification.
07/30/08
Its engaging simplicity is driven by appealing leads.
05/02/03
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