amongst all the doom and gloom, Cote does offer a glimmer of hope towards the finale. Visceral, visually assured, and thematically sound, Tainted functions as a great calling card for its skilled filmmaker
"Tainted" is a somber action movie without enough action; "Tainted" could have been a satisfying if simplistic action B-movie, but director Brent Cote is more interested in morose ruminations on regret