Twenty years after this Thai action comedy was released I had the chance to sit down and watch it. I found the movie by random luck, and opted to give it a go, since I hadn't already seen it. And I figured as the movie had Petchtai Wongkamla on the cast list, it couldn't be all bad.

But it was.

It was just so difficult to get into the groove of this movie. The storyline just failed to connect with me and I found very little enjoyment or entertainment in this movie.

The characters in the movie just felt random and very chaotic, and again it was hard to connect with these characters as they were essentially as interesting as wet cardboard.

Sure, there were a fair amount of action in the movie, but with the lack of a properly interesting and pseudo-coherent storyline, then the action could do only so much for the movie.

"Killer Tattoo" was a swing and a miss from director Yuthlert Sippapak, and it was by no means a glorious or memorable moment in Thai action cinema.

I am rating "Killer Tattoo" a generous two out of ten stars.

I didn't like this film. I guess I was looking for some simple action fun, but what I got instead was a pretentious mess. The plot is impossible to follow. The tone is all over the place, swinging from broad comedy to overwrought melodrama. Hong Kong films are also famous for such tone shifts, but this Thai production cannot pull it off: the amnesiac killer who thinks he's Elvis and speaks only in (monosyllabic) English does not belong in the same movie as a reprehensible, to say the least, scene of threatened little girl molestation. The action sequences are also a mess - most of the time it's hard to figure out who's shooting at whom or why. The character I liked best was a stylish, Lara Croft - like female assassin, and when she got killed off halfway through, my heart sunk. There is another effective scene near the end, when a man sees his own dead body being dragged away and realizes he has become a ghost. On the whole, however, "Killer Tattoo" is an overlong misfire. (*)

Pae Buffgun, Er M16, Dog and Ghost Rifle are a shambolic group of offbeat assassins who botch a hit on tough Chief of Police, Iron Man. Kit Silencer is the top hit-man who finishes the job, but whose main concern is finding the tattooed killer of his mother 15 years previously.

This great comedy actioner is pure entertainment from start to finish; what other film do you know that features a Thai Elvis-impersonating killer packing a gun in a guitar case, a hippy killer who sees the ghost of his dead wife when making a hit and a sexy female assassin who could shoot the wings off a gnat at 100 yards, AND still have the balls to kill off a few of the main characters before the end credits roll.

Yes... Killer Tattoo is one weird film, mixing as it does extreme violence and light comedy in equal doses – but it works, and it works well.

And it stars Petchtai Wongkamlao, Humlae from Ong-Bak - reason enough to check this one out!!!