Mediocre crime pot-boiler from Clint Eastwood in actor-director mode.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 20, 2020

This vehicle—the cinematic equivalent of a supermarket paperback—plays like the best-ever episode of Matlock rather than a truly distinguished feature film. [Blu-ray]

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 4, 2012

Disappointing, predictable, and graphic.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 22, 2010

The pivotal teaser is a numerical code that baffles experts but gets cracked in one curious gaze by a schoolboy.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Eastwood's sharpest filmmaking since the gig that won him an Oscar.

| Original Score: A | Jul 23, 2007

Master filmmaker Clint Eastwood continues in the classic Howard Hawks/John Ford tradition with unobtrustive direction, relaxed pacing, and strong characters and storytelling.

| May 26, 2006

Typically for Eastwood, there are modest touches to savor.

| Feb 9, 2006

The movie could have used a heart transplant of its own, for its ultimate undoing is its minuscule, phoned-in energy level.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 7, 2005

If you like genre films, Blood Work will not disappoint.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Oct 7, 2004

| Original Score: D+ | Aug 7, 2004

The talent just isn't there to raise the level of this film past television drama.

| Feb 1, 2004

It's still fun to watch [Eastwood] chase the bad guys, and he still has that indescribable aura about him.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 6, 2004

Very silly: sometimes almost enjoyably so, often just in a tired way.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 20, 2003

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 25, 2003

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 8, 2003

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 4, 2003

Eastwood should spend the next five years gargling to get rid of the taste.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 16, 2003

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 | Original Score: B | Jan 10, 2003

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.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 6, 2003

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.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jan 4, 2003