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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....
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
Although the identity of the action thriller's culprit is painfully evident early in the movie, Mr. Eastwood's direction is skillful enough to keep the suspense percolating.
...another one of Clint Eastwood's essays on the aging process disguised as a genre film.
The professionalism of the direction does little to mask the banality of the product.
[The film] delivers the goods, in part because of Eastwood's iconic presence and in part because of Daniels' scene-stealing work in what could have been a hokey role.
The pacing is glacial, the screenplay is stiff as a board, and things heat up only in the movie's final scenes.
Seems to have been influenced solely by TV cop shows, right down to its cliched humor.
This is a murder mystery in which fitting together the pieces of the puzzle takes precedence over the solution.
Some say Eastwood could sleepwalk through detective thrillers of this nature. I say he just did.
Twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career, Clint Eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him. Big time.
A sturdy, if dawdling, old-fashioned adding-up- the-clues mystery that turns out to be one or two notches cleverer than you expect.
Eastwood judiciously tempers the picture's more hackneyed elements. But so many scenes invite easy second-guessing of the hero...that the movie's strengths are often obscured.
A satisfying and engaging thriller, even if it does take you down the memory lane of previous serial killer scripts.
Sometimes this 'Blood' seems as tired as its protagonist...Still, the pulse never disappears entirely, and the picture crosses the finish line winded but still game.
Blood Work is just no fun, it's so amazingly predictable, and it moves at a snails pace
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