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.
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....
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 adversary – a psychopath dubbed “The Code Killer” by the media – McCaleb is felled by a massive heart attack and forced into early retirement.
Two years later, a beautiful stranger (WANDA De JESÚS) reveals a secret that compels McCaleb to re-examine his recovery: his life was saved by someone else’s death – the victim of a murder that remains unsolved.
Against the advice of his cardiologist (ANJELICA HUSTON) and with the help of an eager neighbor (JEFF DANIELS), McCaleb literally puts his life on the line to track down a murderer who has forced him to take this case personally.
He’s a heartbeat away from catching the killer.
Warner Bros. Pictures presents the suspense thriller Blood Work, a Malpaso Production starring CLINT EASTWOOD, JEFF DANIELS, WANDA De JESÚS, TINA LIFFORD, PAUL RODRIGUEZ, DYLAN WALSH and ANJELICA HUSTON.
Produced and directed by CLINT EASTWOOD from a screenplay by BRIAN HELGELAND, based on the best selling novel by MICHAEL CONNELLY, the film is executive produced by ROBERT LORENZ. The co-producer is JUDIE G. HOYT.
The editor is JOEL COX; the production designer is HENRY BUMSTEAD; the director of photography is TOM STERN; and the music is composed by LENNIE NIEHAUS.
Blood Work will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures, an AOL Time Warner Company.
This film has been rated “R” by the Motion Picture Association of America for “violence and language.”
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Wanda De Jesus, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Wanda De Jesus, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Tina Lifford, Paul Rodriguez, Dylan Walsh
Director: Clint Eastwood
Director: Clint Eastwood
Screenwriter: Brian Helgeland
Producer: Clint Eastwood
Composer: Lennie Niehaus
Studio: Warner Bros.
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Reviews for Blood Work
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The pivotal teaser is a numerical code that baffles experts but gets cracked in one curious gaze by a schoolboy. Full Review |
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Eastwood's sharpest filmmaking since the gig that won him an Oscar. Full Review |
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Master filmmaker Clint Eastwood continues in the classic Howard Hawks/John Ford tradition with unobtrustive direction, relaxed pacing, and strong characters and storytelling. Full Review |
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Typically for Eastwood, there are modest touches to savor. Full Review |
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The movie could have used a heart transplant of its own, for its ultimate undoing is its minuscule, phoned-in energy level. Full Review |
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If you like genre films, Blood Work will not disappoint. Full Review |
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The talent just isn't there to raise the level of this film past television drama. Full Review |
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It's still fun to watch [Eastwood] chase the bad guys, and he still has that indescribable aura about him. Full Review |
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Very silly: sometimes almost enjoyably so, often just in a tired way. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Click to read the article Full Review |
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Eastwood should spend the next five years gargling to get rid of the taste. Full Review |
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The murder mystery develops in engaging fashion, but disappointment comes when Blood Work intermittently leaves its clever roots to honor dull Hollywood conventions. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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Efficient but fairly unexciting. Full Review |
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...a throwback to an earlier age of more-relaxed mystery films. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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