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 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
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 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 CriticEfficient but fairly unexciting.
12/23/02
The cowboy can still conjure up a stoic maverick cop with credibility and keep you biting your nails through most of the film. Nice Work.
08/09/02
What Blood Work lacks in speed and surprise it almost makes up for in doughty professionalism.
08/08/02
Top CriticIt can be argued, I suppose, that Blood Work was designed from the outset not so much as a whodunit as a why-and-how-dunit, and here the film becomes metaphysically ingenious.
08/16/02
[The film] delivers the goods, in part because of Eastwood's iconic presence and in part because of Daniels' scene-stealing work in what could have been a hokey role.
08/08/02
The actors manage to make it all seem plausible enough.
08/09/02
A tidy, somewhat predictable package...solid entertainment for the mainstream audience
08/08/02
While we may doubt his physical capabilities, 72-year-old Clint Eastwood can still deliver as an action hero.
08/13/02
This is a murder mystery in which fitting together the pieces of the puzzle takes precedence over the solution.
08/08/02
A routine police thriller.
08/09/02
It's not an important picture, and probably not even a memorable one, but I had a good time.
08/09/02
Eastwood's skill with actors and with the tone of Blood Work, which is weary, bemused and suspenseful, bode well for his career as a director, whenever he decides to stop baring his torso to actresses who weren't even born when he joined AARP.
08/08/02
This isn’t exactly the Magnum-wielding, butt-kicking Dirty Harry we remember from the 1970s — and Eastwood seems liberated by it.
10/16/02
Eastwood returns to form with Blood Work, a dark, moody thriller that's as much about his own mortality as it is about catching bad guys.
08/17/02
...Blood Work is an effective and clearly old-school type thriller that should appeal to older audiences and those who are tired of super fast-paced summer flicks.
09/26/02
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