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Blood Work
2002
BLOOD WORK, starring Clint Eastwood as retired FBI agent Terry McCaleb, is a mystery thriller about a serial killer whose latest victim was the organ donor responsible for McCaleb's recent heart transplant. When the victim's sister, Graciella (Wanda de Jesus), delivers this strange news to him and asks for his help, he has no .. Read more
| Starring | Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, Wanda De Jesus |
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| Director | Clint Eastwood |
| Genres | Drama |
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Life is not easy for Clint Eastwood fans — for those of us, anyway, who claim he is a great director and not just a cigarillo-smoking icon with a mean squint. For every Unforgiven, there's a Heartbreak Ridge or Sudden Impact, films that are not so much bad as just depressingly average. Sadly, this thriller is one of those. Clint plays an FBI agent who leaves the agency after a heart attack. While recovering from a transplant, he is brought out of retirement for one last case — the twist here is that the victim was his organ donor. Apart from that, it's a routine police thriller with an unconvincing romance (with a much younger woman, of course) thrown in. Eastwood's stodgy direction doesn't help and the script from Brian Helgeland, co-writer of LA Confidential, fails to elevate this above the ordinary.
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Eastwood acknowledges here that age has caught up with him; unfortunately it has also overtaken this somewhat senile thriller that is kept alive only by the expert direction.
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While pursuing a suspect in a serial killer case, veteran FBI profiler Terry McCaleb (Eastwood) is felled by a heart... read more on Time Out
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Blood Work has a faintly ludicrous premise - an ex FBI/Private Investigator has a heart transplant and after finding out that the donor was murdered is enlisted... more
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this film, although I do more prefer Clint Eastwood in Murder Thriller's rather than westerns. Great watching, most enjoyable, certain ... more
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Morality and Noir
'Blood Work' is typical of Eastwood's later work concerning itself as it does with moral issues of life and death. If I had not seen 'Mystic ... more
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Most recent members' reviews (2)
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Blood Work has a faintly ludicrous premise - an ex FBI/Private Investigator has a heart transplant and after finding out that the donor was murdered is enlisted... more
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
If you like Clint Eastwood films this is an Ok film, if you don't you may find this a little slow paced. Worth a watch.
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7 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Blood Work has a faintly ludicrous premise - an ex FBI/Private Investigator has a heart transplant and after finding out that the donor was murdered is enlisted... more
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
I really enjoyed this film, although I do more prefer Clint Eastwood in Murder Thriller's rather than westerns. Great watching, most enjoyable, certain ... more
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Morality and Noir
'Blood Work' is typical of Eastwood's later work concerning itself as it does with moral issues of life and death. If I had not seen 'Mystic ... more
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
If you like Clint Eastwood films this is an Ok film, if you don't you may find this a little slow paced. Worth a watch.
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1 out of 1 person found this review helpful
Big Clint Fan!
This wasn't one of Clint Eastwoods beat thrillers but its worth a watch if your a fan. The story is quite boring and the outcome isn't really that ... more
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Bloody hard work
Mcaleb (Eastwood) hunts down the killer of his heart donor. Slow paced but has all the Eastwood style. Not at his best but worth a look all the same.
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Not as good as the book
An adequate film from an excellent book. Not Clint Eastwoods best performance and the story line was disjointed. If I hadn't read the book I would have been... more
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Ageing Clint Estwood plays Dirty Harry again
In the vain of Dirty Harry, Clint Eastwood portrays a retired detective looking for the murderer of the person who's heart he has been given. Eastwood ... more
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Loved the book....
so watched the film. No great surprises for me, but still a good Clint performance. A bit plodding, never really gets you that interested. Still a good film ... more
Critics' reviews (3)
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Life is not easy for Clint Eastwood fans — for those of us, anyway, who claim he is a great director and not just a cigarillo-smoking icon with a mean squint. For every Unforgiven, there's a Heartbreak Ridge or Sudden Impact, films that are not so much bad as just depressingly average. Sadly, this thriller is one of those. Clint plays an FBI agent who leaves the agency after a heart attack. While recovering from a transplant, he is brought out of retirement for one last case — the twist here is that the victim was his organ donor. Apart from that, it's a routine police thriller with an unconvincing romance (with a much younger woman, of course) thrown in. Eastwood's stodgy direction doesn't help and the script from Brian Helgeland, co-writer of LA Confidential, fails to elevate this above the ordinary.
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Eastwood acknowledges here that age has caught up with him; unfortunately it has also overtaken this somewhat senile thriller that is kept alive only by the expert direction.
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While pursuing a suspect in a serial killer case, veteran FBI profiler Terry McCaleb (Eastwood) is felled by a heart... read more on Time Out
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