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
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08/09/02
The key to a good thriller is a sense of urgency, something that is sorely lacking on both sides of the camera in Blood Work, a characteristically muted late-period offering from Clint Eastwood.
08/20/02
It's not difficult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller.
08/09/02
Well made but uninvolving, Bloodwork isn’t a terrible movie, just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery.
08/26/02
A sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue, heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment, and an overly-familiar set of plot devices.
08/09/02
The talent just isn't there to raise the level of this film past television drama.
02/01/04
The final result of this blood work is - O, negative.
08/09/02
I would have rather watched Clint’s heart transplant than this lethargic, poorly made movie.
08/09/02
Anyone who has consumed more than a handful of detective stories will get the 'whodunit' early on and be stranded with a protagonist who is lagging behind in a visually stale environment.
08/09/02
By the end of the film this fascinating character study looses all credibility at the hands of an age-old, Hollywood stereotype.
08/09/02
Eastwood on top of his game wouldn’t have made a movie so easy to figure out or so painful to watch.
08/09/02
Solid enough entertainment for a summer blockbuster.
08/09/02
A methodical police procedural that never is as engaging or as enjoyable as the twitching, hoarse-voiced, effortlessly charismatic Eastwood is to watch.
08/08/02
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