Review – Tattoo

This might have been an okay movie if they’d just cut it off about an hour in, right after Maud Adams wakes up and discovers that Norman Bates wannabe Bruce Dern has coated her with tats. Stopping it right then and there would have given it a nice sort of Twilight Zone quality (you can almost hear Rod Serling delivering a pithy speech about the dangers of forbidden romance, his upper lip never moving). I guess it was a mildly clever concept, but by the time it devolves into the woman growing to love her rapist it was just so thoroughly repugnant (or at the very least dated) to make it unwatchable. See if desperate