There is nothing particularly clever or original to set it apart from the very basics of the genre.
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08/09/02
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
You don't know whether to admire the film's stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace. Or both.
08/09/02
Top CriticAnyone 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
Forget the heart transplant, Blood Work is ready for embalming.
08/09/02
A routine police thriller.
08/09/02
Clint Eastwood's most accomplished movie in nearly a decade.
08/09/02
For all its plot twists, and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down, Blood Work is a strong, character-oriented piece.
08/09/02
For a movie about a heart, this is all saggy flesh and bare bones.
08/09/02
As a director, Eastwood is off his game -- there's no real sense of suspense, and none of the plot 'surprises' are really surprising.
08/09/02
A vital, exciting work.
08/09/02
A tightly directed, highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways.
08/09/02
The movie slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves.
08/09/02
The performances play like scenes from a daytime soap opera.
08/09/02
“Blood Work” is a cut above the routine serial killer movie in terms of character study and provides a different kind of hero for the star to wrap his arms around.
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
Clint Eastwood directs and stars in a heart transplant psycho-thriller that sports a few scars itself.
08/09/02
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 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
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08/09/02
Terry is a sort of geriatric Dirty Harry, which will please Eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story, wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his man.
08/09/02
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