Disappointing, predictable, and graphic.

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

Typically for Eastwood, there are modest touches to savor.

| Feb 9, 2006

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

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 20, 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

Sure, Eastwood's made bad movies before, but as with his fellow great director-star Woody Allen, there's a feeling that this time the creative decline is irreversible.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 11, 2002

It's mostly a pro forma police procedural spiced by a baroque twist that Eastwood doesn't really know what to do with.

Full Review | Sep 26, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: B | Aug 25, 2002

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2002

It doesn't sound bad...but Bloodwork is bad, oh, lordy, yes, it is.

Full Review | Aug 20, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 17, 2002

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.

Full Review | Aug 16, 2002

Even as it ends in a flurry of absurd plot twists, Blood Work holds you in a vise.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 11, 2002

If the detective-story aspect of Blood Work fails to thoroughly captivate, the movie is nevertheless enjoyable for its constant stream of lively characters and the delight in watching a man with a bad ticker but a good head go through his paces.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 11, 2002

It's always nice to see Clint.

| Aug 9, 2002

The actors manage to make it all seem plausible enough.

| Aug 9, 2002

There are certain old friends who are fun to have around, but Blood Work does its best to reduce Clint Eastwood to something like the houseguest you struggle to tolerate after he overstays his welcome.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 9, 2002

Clint's aim may not be as straight as it once was, but it's still true.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2002

Set to the steady, unassuming rhythm of a procedural mystery, this thriller never loses its taut discipline even during the story's more-chimerical developments.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2002

This is the Eastwood of old, and the fact that he can still pull off such heroics tells us how far he had to stretch to play nervous and frail.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2002

Far-fetched and trite.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 9, 2002