Tattoo

Name: Tattoo
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Released: July 4, 2003
Duration: 108 min
Rating: 66

2003

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American Vitagraph | Release Date: July 4, 2003

Summary: This German thriller follows two detectives in pursuit of a killer prepared to skin victims for the priceless tattoos on their hides.

Director: Robert Schwentke

Genre(s): Drama, Thriller, Crime

Runtime: 108 min

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Robert K. Elder

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. Read full review

Kevin Thomas

The film is an engrossing and original police procedural of bleak, steel-gray images and high style. But be warned: as part of its complex, ever-unfolding plot, it is punctuated with some grisly images. Read full review

John Patterson

Indulging his taste for Grand Guignol and the stylistically baroque, Schwentke never quite overplays his hand, though his occasional lapses into visual extravagance can be irritating, and the result is a nasty, intelligent and complex thriller. Read full review

Derek Elley

Slick, grisly and determinedly umbral, German cop thriller Tattoo is a largely effective "Se7en" wannabe that gradually develops its own character after an over-derivative start. Read full review

Janice Page

Maybe Tattoo is creepy and stylized enough to pull you along anyway, but if you like your thrillers to dig below the familiar epidermis, look elsewhere. Read full review

Tasha Robinson

Unlike so many "Seven" followers, it makes its missteps memorably, and offers a variety of stylistic rewards by way of compensation. Read full review

David Ng

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. Read full review

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