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Metascore

Generally favorable reviews - based on 12 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: This German thriller follows two detectives in pursuit of a killer prepared to skin victims for the priceless tattoos on their hides.
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 12
  2. Negative: 1 out of 12
  1. 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.
  2. Reviewed by: Kim Newman
    60
    Delivers an effective double-sting ending.
  3. Reviewed by: David Ng
    20
    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.

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