over 90 percent of tattoo be take at night or indoors with dim lightning . this might be the reason why this one be often compare to david fincher seven ( which also have two officer investigate mysterious and bizarre serial killer ) . fairly impressive cast of tattoo can not cache rather implausible and heavy construct story . august diehl have never look so lose on the big screen a in the second half of tattoo ( probably he notice what he be into it and it be too late to get out ) . dull and likely socially disturb dialog ( with some witty humor about the skin and german die pelle ) plus the unnatural lightning definitely kill the aesthetic effort of the filmmaker ( which be merely noticeable ) . this movie be rat to high in my opinion and because there be no explicit cruelty in it ( which be a plus . ) and it just mostly boredom . the plot try to display a bizarre scene of tattoo fetishist ( tattoo collector who kill people for their skin ) . the tattoo art aspect come short and they only chat about it and but the actual tattoo use in this movie be not good ( or not display good enough ) . our hero ( diehl ) go through a strange metamorphosis from a innocent and unprofessional police apprentice ( which he master very good ) till he become a super bad cop like charles bronson ( selfjustice and etc ) . diehl look here a lot out of place . this movie have a notable success ( especially in the u. s. ) and seem like a proper mix of some hype element represent tattoo and sex and body modification ( marginal ) . but this movie have a significant lack in the story itself and which be not plausible at all . other problem be weak director performance ( seem like nadeshda brennicke be cast only to take off the clothes ) and somehow inappropriate editing ( with no plausible reasoning ) . the good one about this movie be some support actor and which be brilliant ( ilknur bahadir a the annoy cop and monika bleibtreu a police bos mom ) and some interesting architecture shot . the rest be awful and great actor and expensive lihgtstyling be no guarantee for a good movie . well and not in germany . p . nivea creme be a very popular skin care product in europe .