Blood Work: Critic Reviews

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MovieWeb: 1 reviews

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RottenTomatoes: 50 reviews

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

40

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.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Wesley Morris Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

Even as it ends in a flurry of absurd plot twists, Blood Work holds you in a vise.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Peter Rainer New York Magazine (Top Critic)

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 » 10 years ago
Andrew Sarris New York Observer (Top Critic)

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 » 10 years ago
Peter Travers Rolling Stone (Top Critic)

It doesn't sound bad...but Bloodwork is bad, oh, lordy, yes, it is.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Nell Minow Common Sense Media

40

Disappointing, predictable, and graphic.
Full Review » 1 year ago
Mark Halverson Sacramento News & Review

40

The pivotal teaser is a numerical code that baffles experts but gets cracked in one curious gaze by a schoolboy.
Full Review » 4 years ago
Rob Gonsalves eFilmCritic.com

100

Eastwood's sharpest filmmaking since the gig that won him an Oscar.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid

Master filmmaker Clint Eastwood continues in the classic Howard Hawks/John Ford tradition with unobtrustive direction, relaxed pacing, and strong characters and storytelling.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Geoff Andrew Time Out

Typically for Eastwood, there are modest touches to savor.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Michael Dequina TheMovieReport.com

50

The movie could have used a heart transplant of its own, for its ultimate undoing is its minuscule, phoned-in energy level.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Tony Medley tonymedley.com

60

If you like genre films, Blood Work will not disappoint.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Charlie Brown FilmStew.com

The talent just isn't there to raise the level of this film past television drama.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Greg Maki Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

75

It's still fun to watch [Eastwood] chase the bad guys, and he still has that indescribable aura about him.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Kim Newman Empire Magazine

40

Very silly: sometimes almost enjoyably so, often just in a tired way.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Scott Weinberg eFilmCritic.com

70

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.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

40

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.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Harry Guerin RTE Interactive (Dublin, Ireland)

20

Eastwood should spend the next five years gargling to get rid of the taste.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Forrest Hartman Reno Gazette-Journal

67

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 » 9 years ago
Matthew Turner ViewLondon

20

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.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall

50

Efficient but fairly unexciting.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John J. Puccio DVDTown.com

70

...a throwback to an earlier age of more-relaxed mystery films.
Full Review » 9 years ago
Urban Cinefile Critics Urban Cinefile

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.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Nev Pierce BBC

20

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.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jean Lowerison San Diego Metropolitan

Distinctly lesser Eastwood. See it if you're like me, and will see anything he's in or has directed.
Full Review » 10 years ago