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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
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
N/R

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

Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
06/04/04
Michael O'Sullivan
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
Rich Cline
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Full Review Source: Movie Gazette | comment Comment
12/05/03
Anton Bitel
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
Jamie Russell
BBC

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

Full Review Source: Boston Globe | comment Comment
08/15/03
Janice Page
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
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
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today

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

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
07/11/03
Kevin Thomas
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
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
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.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
07/08/03
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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

Full Review Source: New York Times | comment Comment
07/08/03
Stephen Holden
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
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
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.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
07/02/03
David Ng
David Ng
Village Voice
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If you had the stomach for “Seven,” you’ll enjoy the German translation.

Full Review Source: Capital Times (Madison, WI) | comment Comment
06/19/03
Rob Thomas
Rob Thomas
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
 
 
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