Tattoo 2002

Janice Page, Boston Globe: The premise of this film might be halfway original, but the execution is wholly derivative. Read more

Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: 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 more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: For all its oversights, absurdities and unconnected dots, Tattoo succeeds in getting under your skin. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: An engrossing and original police procedural of bleak, steel-gray images and high style. Read more

John Patterson, L.A. Weekly: A nasty, intelligent and complex thriller. Read more

Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: 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. Read more

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David Ng, Village Voice: 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 more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Stylish and engaging despite its over-reliance on the conventions of the thriller genre. Read more