I love this movie so much

Fresh and Exciting

everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

Tattoo (2002)What a crazy movie, the movie start of with a lady who is naked walking in the rain, her back as just been skinned off, then she gets hit by a bus that crash and blows up.Then police are investigation that body at morgue and find out that there finger in side her, she as bit of the attack sh-allowed!That was just first 4 minutes of the movie , the action packed for the first hour so, fast moving, it gets little slower just after hour into movie but it dose not last long, as pick up speed again for last 20 minutes.I did not get the ending at all, I wish it was bit was clear.Really good movie and great acting in the movie.7 out of 10

The directorial debut of Schwentke is no-doubt a very well shot movie. It looks beautiful, ıts atmosphere is intriguing, the score and soundtrack is perfect match and the acting is above average.. whoever succeeds in shooting a movie that looks like this as a debut is deemed to be a very successful director. thats for sure.. His obssesion with reflections can be tiring from time to time but Schwentke handles this so delicately this trademark of his never feels repetitive..It is nearly impossible to think of someone who would not wonder about Schwentke's next project after watching Tattoo. So after so much praise lets come to the negatives. I will say only one thing: story.. It is full of nonsense. Minks a cop of years of experience on the streets can not locate his own daughter but the younger cop who is asked to help find her in a day.. and hey she was working as a bartender in a nightclub. But a 20 year veteran detective who seems to live to find his daughter can not locate her..? Actually I myself had difficulty in following the plot but the movie gives you the understanding that the police in Germany is really really incompetent--no offense to the Polizie it is just what the movie suggests..-- 12 deads, one dead detective and his daughter and still no one seems to care including the chief..? I think with a stronger screenplay this movie had the potential to be a classic especially with the direction of Schwentke.. A solid 7.5

Over 90 percent of Tattoo are taken at night or indoors with dim lightning. This might be the reason why this one is often compared to David Fincher's Seven (which also has two officers investigating mysterious and bizarre serial killer). Fairly impressive cast of Tattoo cannot cache rather implausible & heavy constructed story. August Diehl has never looked so lost on the big screen as in the second half of Tattoo (probably he noticed what he was into it - and it was too late to get out). Dull and likely socially disturbed dialogs (with some "witty" humor about the skin, German "die Pelle") plus the unnatural lightning definitely kills the aesthetic effort of the filmmakers (which is merely noticeable). This movie is rated to high in my opinion, because there is no explicit cruelty in it (which is a plus!), its just mostly boredom.The plot tries to display a bizarre scene of Tattoo-fetishists (Tattoo collectors who kill people for their skin). The Tattoo art aspect comes short, they only chat about it, but the actual Tattoos used in this movie are not good (or not displayed good enough).Our hero (Diehl) goes through a strange metamorphosis from a innocent and unprofessional police-apprentice (which he masters very good) till he becomes a super-bad-cop like Charles Bronson (selfjustice, etc). Diehl looks here a lot out of place.This movie had a notable success (especially in the U.S.), seems like a proper mix of some hype elements: Tattoos, sex & body modification (marginal). But this movie has a significant lack in the story itself, which is not plausible at all. Other problems are weak director's performance (seems like Nadeshda Brennicke was casted only to take off the clothes) and somehow inappropriate editing (with no plausible reasoning). The good one about this movie are some supporting actors, which are brilliant (Ilknur Bahadir as the annoying cop and Monika Bleibtreu as police-boss-mom) and some interesting architecture shots. The rest is awful, great actors and expensive lihgtstyling are no guarantee for a good movie. Well, not in Germany.ps. Nivea-Creme is a very popular skin care product in Europe.

Though this movie does have more than passing similarities to David Fincher's SE7EN, I feel that comparing the two is unfair and, in my opinion, downright unwise. It is true that TATTOO unfolds in an ever rainy cityscape; follows the lives of two police detectives (with a vast generation and experience gap) while they chase a killer. And yes, it plays its drama out amidst a seedy German underworldHowever, what transpires amidst this spectacularly visualized tapestry full of rave parties, torture chambers, skin rooms, and body modification cliques willing to sell the tattoos off their body for quick cash, is vastly different in tone and theme from Fincher's 'who done it, and why' police procedural. Here the characters are not shown as black and white, but rather in shades of gray. Their lives, their dilemmas, are the real story. Even the reasons for the killings are presented in such a way that makes you understand, if not empathize, with those that a standard Hollywood picture would casually demonize. This element of moral ambiguity, under the remarkably controlled direction of Schwentke, creates a dark, cold, and subtly stylized world, that surprisingly plays as very very real. It is encouraging to see a European film with the refined sensibility of European cinema combined so adeptly with a genre so intrinsically American. It is also hard to believe that this is Schwentke's directorial debut. (I for one will keep my eye on him.)It's a remarkable film, and I certainly hope it blows the doors open for other genre films shot in Germany, and in Europe as a whole. Not since viewing Spoorloos (The Vanishing) have I been so impressed. If you have a chance, don't hesitate to catch it on the big screen. It's gorgeous, it's ballsy, and it's worth it.