1994
The
Last Tattoo is a 1994
dramatic thriller set
during World War 2
when American soldiers
rested in New Zealand.
Kelly Towne (Kerry
Fox) is a nurse who is
working on the
stopping the spread of
VD amongst the
soldiers and locals.
She has come across a
particularly virulent
strain and one of the
people she has deduced
who has it is Rose
Mitchell (Katie
Wolfe), but she seems
to have disappeared
and it's because of a
murder of an American
soldier who was going
to be her husband. The
American soldiers,
headed by General
Frank Zane (Rod
Steiger) and Commander
Conrad Dart (Robert
Loggia) have
reluctantly decided to
investigate the murder
and get the injured
Captain Michael
Starwood (Tony
Goldwyn) to discreetly
investigate. This
means that both Kelly
and Michael are
looking for Rose,
which disgusts Kelly
as she is after
discretion for her
patients. She finds
Rose, but Michael
follows her and chases
her off. Meanwhile,
the local union, who
are very much involved
in the murder are
attempting to stop the
truth from coming out.
Kelly finds out that
Commander authorised
the test for Rose
meaning he had sex
with her and all of a
sudden this bigger
than she could
imagine. Kelly and
Michael fall for one
another as they work
closer together and
get closer to the
truth, but will the
ever get to that
truth?
Interesting movie
driven by two good
performances by Fox
and Goldwyn and an
intriguing mystery
even with the sexual
disease angle, which
is a strange plot
device to set a movie
on.