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NUMBERS
Box Office: $26,118,847
VHS Rentals: $10,970,000
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CONSENSUS
Blood Work is a routine, but competently made thriller marred by lethargic pacing.
CAST & CREW
Clint Eastwood, Wanda De Jesus, Jeff Daniels
Directed by Clint Eastwood
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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...
MPAA RATING
R, for violence and language
RUNTIME
1 hour, 55 minutes
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Aug 9, 2002
Video: Dec 27, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Warner Bros.
GENRE
Dramas, Mystery, Thriller, Murder, Mystery/Suspense, Serial Killers, FBI Agents, Murder Investigations
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Blood Work Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
PRODUCTION NOTES
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "A tightly directed, highly professional film that's old-fashioned in all the best possible ways."
-- Glenn Whipp, LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS
"Clint Eastwood’s 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."
-- Scott Weinberg, DAILY-REVIEWS
 "A sleep-inducingly slow-paced crime drama with clumsy dialogue, heavy-handed phoney-feeling sentiment, and an overly-familiar set of plot devices."
-- Brian Webster, APOLLO GUIDE
"Eastwood winces, clutches his chest and gasps for breath. It's a spectacular performance - ahem, we hope it's only acting."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
"If you enjoy being rewarded by a script that assumes you aren't very bright, then Blood Work is for you."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"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."
-- Urban Cinefile Critics, URBAN CINEFILE
"A painfully slow cliche-ridden film filled with more holes than Clyde Barrow's car."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"Serviceable at best, slightly less than serviceable at worst."
-- Scott Tobias, ONION AV CLUB
"The pacing is glacial, the screenplay is stiff as a board, and things heat up only in the movie's final scenes."
-- Ella Taylor, L.A. WEEKLY
"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."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"We have an actor who is great fun to watch performing in a film that is only mildly diverting."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"Well made but uninvolving, Bloodwork isn’t a terrible movie, just a stultifyingly obvious one -- an unrewarding collar for a murder mystery."
-- Brent Simon, ENTERTAINMENT TODAY
"Solid enough entertainment for a summer blockbuster that comes via a familiar serial killer story, and is told in a dead-pan old-fashioned way
police stories were once told."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
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"As a director, Eastwood is off his game -- there's no real sense of suspense, and none of the plot 'surprises' are really surprising."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Twenty-three movies into a mostly magnificent directorial career, Clint Eastwood's efficiently minimalist style finally has failed him. Big time."
-- John Urbancich, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"It's not difficult to spot the culprit early-on in this predictable thriller."
-- Betty Jo Tucker, REELTALK MOVIE REVIEWS
"The movie slides downhill as soon as macho action conventions assert themselves."
-- Lawrence Toppman, CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
"Remember back when thrillers actually thrilled? When the twist endings were actually surprising? When the violence actually shocked? When the heroes were actually under 40? Sadly, as Blood Work proves, that was a long, long time ago."
-- Tor Thorsen, REEL.COM
"The film is moody, oozing, chilling and heart-warming all at once...a twisting, unpredictable, cat-and-mouse thriller."
-- Michael Szymanski, ZAP2IT.COM
"Terry is a sort of geriatric Dirty Harry, which will please Eastwood's loyal fans -- and suits the story, wherein our hero must ride roughshod over incompetent cops to get his man."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
"This isn’t exactly the Magnum-wielding, butt-kicking Dirty Harry we remember
from the 1970s — and Eastwood seems liberated by it."
-- Christopher Smith, BANGOR DAILY NEWS (MAINE)
"Most of the supporting characters in Eastwood films are weak, as are most of the subplots. This one's weaker than most."
-- Chuck Schwartz, CRANKY CRITIC®
"Maybe it is formula filmmaking, but there's nothing wrong with that if the film is well-crafted and this one is."
-- Robert Roten, LARAMIE MOVIE SCOPE
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FRESH 77%
Avg. Rating: 6.5/10 |
"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."
-- Philip Wuntch, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"Has a lot of the virtues of Eastwood at his best."
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"You don't know whether to admire the film's stately nature and call it classicism or be exasperated by a noticeable lack of pace. Or both."
-- Kenneth Turan, LOS ANGELES TIMES
"It's not an important picture, and probably not even a memorable one, but I had a good time."
-- Charles Taylor, SALON.COM
"Blood Work is laughable in the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from Eastwood's Dirty Harry period."
-- Jan Stuart, NEWSDAY
"For all its plot twists, and some of them verge on the bizarre as the film winds down, Blood Work is a strong, character-oriented piece."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"What Blood Work lacks in speed and surprise it almost makes up for in doughty professionalism."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"It can be argued, I suppose, that Blood Work was designed from the outset not so much as a whodunit as a why-and-how-dunit, and here the film becomes metaphysically ingenious."
-- Andrew Sarris, NEW YORK OBSERVER
"A vital, exciting work."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"[A] strong piece of work."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
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"If it's not entirely memorable, the movie is certainly easy to watch."
-- Rene Rodriguez, MIAMI HERALD
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