Matcollis This Movie Can Only Be Described With One Word.

Livestonth I am only giving this movie a 1 for the great cast, though I can't imagine what any of them were thinking. This movie was horrible

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

allison-aa I've watched this movie three times and find it to be a quite extraordinary; an homage, with a twist, to Beauty and the Beast perhaps? Whilst I can understand the distaste of some reviewers for the subject matter it was, for me, both very well executed and engrossing and I thought that both leading characters played their respective roles very well. Reviewing a movie such as this is complicated. The fact that it elicited such visceral reactions is, in my view, a tribute to its success in deeply involving the viewer in the story-line. How one reacts to that involvement is, of course, a purely personal response; but shouldn't the review of a movie reflect the extent to which it involves its audience, for better or for worse rather than the subject matter?

Milan "Tattoo" drew my attention purely by chance. I was reading up on some movies with similar plot involving psychotic love and abduction, and "Tattoo" just happened to be among them. I didn't know what to expect, but I was willing to check it out. Kind of a nice surprise, really, this movie is no deep character study, it's not terrifying, nor violent or brutal, it's just pretty good. Bruce Dern is a very good choice when it comes to roles of deeply disturbed characters, and he can do a good job showing all the layers that mentally unstable can be coated with. The anger, sympathy, obsession and violence are all within him, and Maude Adams is just along for the ride.Two of them are fully compatible on screen and the movie is done by the numbers, the plot steadily flows and the story unfolds to the end, which I didn't think was right, at first, I expected something else, but the mixture of emotions within Maude Adams, should have produced the combination of love and hate that ended the movie. Worth seeing.

Jonathon Dabell Bruce Dern is something of an expert at playing psychotics, so it is hardly surprising to find him in this sleazy psychological thriller. Dern's deranged performance is weirdly fascinating but does not alone make the film an enjoyable viewing experience. Much more out-of-place is former model and Bond girl Maud Adams, whose non-performance in Tattoo is desperately embarrassing to watch, and fails to add credibility to the notion that Dern's tattooist could ever fall completely and obsessively in love with her.New York tattoo enthusiast Karl Kinsky (Bruce Dern) is hired to apply some fake tattoos to a bunch of sexy female models promoting a new line in swimwear. During the photographic shoots, Karl meets international super-model Maddy (Maud Adams), a beautiful but married woman with whom he is quickly smitten. Karl's only reservation about Maddy is that she is not particularly interested in tattoos, but in his twisted mind he thinks that he can change her views on the subject and ultimately force her to love him. A mentally confused loner whose father owns a secluded beachside cottage, Karl decides to take desperate measures to get through to Maddy. He drugs her, kidnaps her and takes her away to the cottage. Here, while she is almost utterly at his mercy, he lovingly tattoos her previously unblemished skin. When Maddy awakens and discovers what he has done to her, she is horrified. Over time, the weird psychological relationship between the tattooist and his prisoner grows stranger and stranger, culminating in a frenzied climax during which the victim stabs her kidnapper during sex….I half-expected Tattoo to emerge a morbidly interesting little film. The plot, while certainly unpleasant and disturbing, has the potential to build up to some interesting psychoanalysis and scenes of suspense. Sadly, very little of the potential is fulfilled. Things move along drearily and unconvincingly, with too many poorly written and poorly executed scenes. The very concept of a tattooist inking someone against their will is quite frightening, but here the pretentious approach virtually wrecks the film. Adams plays the victim-character as such a crashing bore that it's impossible to believe that anyone could desire her vehemently enough to stalk her. This makes Kinsky's decision to kidnap, tattoo and rape her totally unbelievable, which in turn undermines the entire point of the film. The bizarre and violent ending is unsatisfying, though in some ways tastelessly memorable. Tattoo is probably the kind of film that has a dedicated cult following somewhere in the world. 99% of viewers, however, will come away from the film feeling dirty, depressed and disappointed.

carnivalofsouls I had high hopes "Tattoo" would be a minor gem. The ingredients were there - Bruce Dern doing what he does best: playing a psycho, the superb Leonard Frey has a minor role, a script is by a Bunuel and the plot concerns the rarely explored world of tattoos. Yet what we get is soft porn, bad acting and a ridiculously pretentious ending. Okay, so Dern is great as the masturbating, obsessive tattoo artist but the casting of Maud Adams as the object of his obsession is incredibly off. Looking like someone who just crawled out of an airbrush-laden mid-seventies Playboy issue, Adams is about as attractive as drying paint, but not quite as talented.The script is heavily misjudged also, constructed so we come to sympathize with Dern, yet halfway switches to having Adams the protagonist, which fails as attributed to her shallow and bitchy portrayal. And there is the film's major flaw, with no-one to sympathize with the film lacks the power and suspense it so desires. On the plus side it looks great, with wonderful cinematography which somehow even manages to evoke atmosphere from the proceedings on occasion. Also we get a cameo from a teenage Cynthia Nixon, Miranda from "Sex in the City", who impresses with what little screen time she has. "Tattoo" ends on a symbolic note which some may find profound, but most will see it for what it really is - turgid and pointless.Rent "Magic" or "The Collector" instead.One and a half out of four.