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Tattoo
Directed by
Robert Schwentke
R
2002
1h 48m
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Two police detectives, a grizzled veteran and one fresh-faced rookie, hunt a ritualistic serial killer murdering people with tattoos and skinning them.
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Cast of Tattoo
August Diehl
Marc Schrader
Christian Redl
Minks
Nadeshda Brennicke
Maya Kroner
Johan Leysen
Frank Schoubya
Ilknur Bahadir
Meltem
Joe Bausch
Günzel
Fatih Cevikkollu
Dix
Florian Panzner
Poscher
Jasmin Schwiers
Marie Minks
Gustav Peter Wöhler
Scheck
Ingo Naujoks
Stefan Kreiner
Monica Bleibtreu
Roth
Sybille J. Schedwill
Petra
Vicky Berendsen
Marta
Christiane Scheda
Lynn Wilson
Robert Schwentke
Director / Screenplay
Roman Kuhn
Producer
Verena Herfurth
Executive Producer
Jan Hinter
Producer
Wiebke Toppel
Co-Producer
Tattoo Ratings & Reviews
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Stylish and engaging despite its over-reliance on the conventions of the thriller genre.
Boston Globe
Janice Page
The premise of this film might be halfway original, but the execution is wholly derivative.
Film Threat
Eric Campos
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.
Entertainment Today
Brent Simon
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.
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Thomas
An engrossing and original police procedural of bleak, steel-gray images and high style.
Los Angeles Daily News
Glenn Whipp
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.
L.A. Weekly
John Patterson
A nasty, intelligent and complex thriller.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
An assured piece of genre filmmaking that delivers the goods so stylishly it hardly matters that they aren't fresh.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
For all its oversights, absurdities and unconnected dots, Tattoo succeeds in getting under your skin.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A very stylish variation on The Silence of the Lambs and Seven.
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Schwentke's solid cast and a visual talent for nailing the unsavory, noir-soaked milieu compensate for some of the more gratuitous eccentricities.
Village Voice
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.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Rob Thomas
If you had the stomach for "Seven," you'll enjoy the German translation.
Chicago Tribune
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.
San Diego Union-Tribune
David Elliott
Its engaging simplicity is driven by appealing leads.
Internet Reviews
Steve Rhodes
Undoubtedly the scariest movie ever made about tattoos.
San Francisco Examiner
Jeffrey M. Anderson
An above-average thriller.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
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.
Eye for Film
Keith H. Brown
The quality of Schwentke's visuals ... provides ample compensation.
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