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.
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11/16/02
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Blood Work (2002)
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Reviews Counted: 147
Fresh: 78
Rotten:69
Average Rating: 5.5/10
Consensus: Blood Work is a routine, but competently made thriller marred by lethargic pacing.
Theatrical Release: Aug 9, 2002 Wide
Box Office: $26,118,847
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. But as he closes in on his latest... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Wanda De Jesus, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Reviews for Blood Work
Top Critic
The material done the right way could've yielded so much more than this rather lifeless effort.
08/27/02
Top Critic The pivotal teaser is a numerical code that baffles experts but gets cracked in one curious gaze by a schoolboy.
08/07/08
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
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
Very silly: sometimes almost enjoyably so, often just in a tired way.
06/20/03
Top Critic 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
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
Clint 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 Critic It'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
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