It's all as pointless as body modification.
Tattoo (2002)
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Reviews Counted:24
Fresh:17
Rotten:7
Average Rating:6.5/10
Genre: Dramas
Reviews for Tattoo
Stylish and engaging despite its over-reliance on the conventions of the thriller genre.
Dark and interesting, the film looks very good and has an intriguing enough plot that we stay connected to it.
Without the benefit of an equally manipulative script, Schwentke's attempts to appal us eventually just bore.
The premise of this film might be halfway original, but the execution is wholly derivative.
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.
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.
An engrossing and original police procedural of bleak, steel-gray images and high style.
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.
An assured piece of genre filmmaking that delivers the goods so stylishly it hardly matters that they aren't fresh.
For all its oversights, absurdities and unconnected dots, Tattoo succeeds in getting under your skin.
Schwentke's solid cast and a visual talent for nailing the unsavory, noir-soaked milieu compensate for some of the more gratuitous eccentricities.
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.
If you had the stomach for “Seven,” you’ll enjoy the German translation.
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