Distinctly lesser Eastwood. See it if you're like me, and will see anything he's in or has directed.
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10/21/02
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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.... [More]
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Wanda De Jesus, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston
Director: Clint Eastwood
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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
One of the most appealing aspects of Blood Work is that, both as director and star, [Eastwood] uses his age to impressive, even poignant, effect in a straightforward thriller with more-than-average depth.
10/15/02
As boring as High Crimes, but with one big difference: Jeff Daniels is no Jim Caviezel.
10/04/02
Eastwood doesn’t do much to spice up Blood Work, but you can’t fault his sturdy filmmaking style any more than you could a plumber who stops your pipes from leaking.
09/30/02
It's mostly a pro forma police procedural spiced by a baroque twist that Eastwood doesn't really know what to do with.
09/26/02
Top Critic...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
A mature human drama posing as a cop actioner.
09/05/02
The material done the right way could've yielded so much more than this rather lifeless effort.
08/27/02
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
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08/25/02
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08/24/02
Eastwood seems to relish the opportunity to play a man his own age.
08/22/02
Blood Work finds [Eastwood] on auto-pilot –- delivering what we expect so lazily that most of it feels like a bloated tv cop-drama from the 70s.
08/22/02
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 doesn't sound bad...but Bloodwork is bad, oh, lordy, yes, it is.
08/20/02
Top Criticlargely anemic mystery-thriller that moves slowly and methodically through a by-the-numbers plot en route to a ludicrous climax
08/20/02
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08/20/02
Maybe it is formula filmmaking, but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is.
08/17/02
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
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