Typically for Eastwood, there are modest touches to savor.
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02/09/06
Blood Work (2002)
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Reviews Counted:147
Fresh:79
Rotten:68
Average Rating:5.6/10
Consensus: Blood Work is a routine, but competently made thriller marred by lethargic pacing.
Runtime: 1 hr 55 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Someone’s got Terry McCaleb’s number. A veteran FBI profiler, McCaleb (CLINT EASTWOOD) is unrelenting in his pursuit of justice and unequalled in his success at tracking and catching murderers.... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Wanda De Jesus, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston
Director: Clint Eastwood
Reviews for Blood Work
Top CriticVery silly: sometimes almost enjoyably so, often just in a tired way.
06/20/03
Top CriticClint still has presence, but he now looks very elderly, with stunt doubles to do fights and running and, for all I know, walking and breathing too.
01/06/03
Top CriticIt's badly made, the plot is ridiculous and what's more, it confirms that Clint, like Woody Allen, is now much too old for love scenes of any kind.
01/04/03
Efficient but fairly unexciting.
12/23/02
Sure, Eastwood's made bad movies before, but as with his fellow great director-star Woody Allen, there's a feeling that this time the creative decline is irreversible.
11/11/02
Top CriticThe pivotal teaser is a numerical code that baffles experts but gets cracked in one curious gaze by a schoolboy.
08/07/08
Eastwood's sharpest filmmaking since the gig that won him an Oscar.
07/23/07
Master filmmaker Clint Eastwood continues in the classic Howard Hawks/John Ford tradition with unobtrustive direction, relaxed pacing, and strong characters and storytelling.
05/26/06
The movie could have used a heart transplant of its own, for its ultimate undoing is its minuscule, phoned-in energy level.
01/07/05
If you like genre films, Blood Work will not disappoint.
10/07/04
The talent just isn't there to raise the level of this film past television drama.
02/01/04
It's still fun to watch [Eastwood] chase the bad guys, and he still has that indescribable aura about him.
01/06/04
Blood Work is a lot like a well-made PB & J sandwich: familiar, fairly uneventful and boasting no real surprises – but still quite tasty and inviting all the same.
02/25/03
I'm sorry, the guy may be tough, or good-looking, or a respected Hollywood elder, but CLINT EASTWOOD IS NOT A VERY GOOD ACTOR. There, I said it.
02/08/03
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02/04/03
Eastwood should spend the next five years gargling to get rid of the taste.
01/16/03
The murder mystery develops in engaging fashion, but disappointment comes when Blood Work intermittently leaves its clever roots to honor dull Hollywood conventions.
01/10/03
...a throwback to an earlier age of more-relaxed mystery films.
12/14/02
A classy item by a legend who may have nothing left to prove but still has the chops and drive to show how its done.
11/16/02
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