Michael Connelly - Blood Work

Pros: unique plot, chilling premise
Cons: weak romantic angle

There are some debts beyond repayment, gifts for which all the recipient can do is murmur heartfelt thanks and then go on his way. These are the gifts that pass beyond understanding. In certain cultures -- according to legend -- the saving of another's...

Pros: Excellent characters. Well-written. Suspenseful and intriguing plot.
Cons: None.

Former FBI agent Terry Mc Caleb is a lucky man. When a virus nearly destroyed his heart while he was in the prime of life, a heart transplant offered him hope. However, his rare blood type made the wait for a donor stretch on for two years. Fortunately ...

Pros: Jeff Daniels, and pretty good story, really
Cons: Eastwood as one of the walking dead

What do you say about a movie you don’t absolutely hate but you don’t particularly like? I guess you are about to find out-so look out, here comes the review.!

This was a movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. He...

Pros: Eastwood and Daniels make a good team
Cons: Paul Rodriguez

Fans of the work of Clint Eastwood have come to see him primarily as a tough-talking, straightforward man of action. In this movie persona, Eastwood has made himself memorable by playing men who want to see justice served, even if it means straying...

Pros: Reminiscent of Dirty Harry et al
Cons: Can I drive a Mack truck through the holes in this plot?

The plot of BLOOD WORK can be summarized very easily. Clint Eastwood plays a former FBI profiler forced to retire after a heart attack suffered on the job while looking for a killer who has taunted him for ages. He spends two years waiting for a donor,...

Pros: Exciting, always action filled
Cons: None

Terrill McCaleb has recently undergone a heart transplant surgery. He is home, which is aboard a boat moored at the marina, working on his boat when a woman comes to visit him that will forever change his life.

Terry is a detective who used...

Pros: Page turning medical thriller that leaves you surprised
Cons: None

Blood Work is the first novel that I read by Michael Connelly. The 391 pages keep me glued to the book. Page after page I kept seeking to figure out the ending, but I never did.

Blood Work is about an former FBI agent who had to retire...

Pros: plot
Cons: slow, boring, predictable, ending

Blood Work, Clint Eastwood’s latest self-glorifying movie, once again pins him in the glamorous role, although he is much older and fragile this time. He’s still the top cop, only a little weaker. Unfortunately, this flick has only an interesting story...

Pros: Feels like it came out of 1988
Cons: lame "lieutenant" cliche, pathetic love plot

I haven't seen a decent murder mystery in some time. The last one worth watching was True Crime, another of Eastwood's films. Now I can't sit here and say that Blood Work - or any of his films for that matter, are going to win an Oscar or blow you...

Pros: Jeff Daniels is great; intriguing premise.
Cons: Lackluster, poorly acted, cliched... the list goes on.

Clint Eastwood's latest exercise in mediocrity does little to justify its existence other than sport a mildly intriguing premise. Since In the Line of Fire, Eastwood's career has had its share of lows - in fact, aside from the mildly entertaining...

Pros: some elements work, Jeff Daniels was interesting
Cons: no pulse, bad dialogue, slow pace, implausible storyline

Clint Eastwood's Bloodwork is a miscalculation wrapped around a screw-up, in a bundle of stupid weighted by boredom-as-ballast. Needless to say, I didn't like it. I'm a sucker for a good trailer, and Eastwood's people pitched this one with grit. ...

Pros: Its hard to find one... in focus?
Cons: Poor acting, bad story, awkward camera work, scenes drag on for hours

I know, the title of my review was a real cliffhanger. Gee, I wonder if he liked the movie? Well, if you haven't caught my drift yet, here it is: this movie stinks. It's awful in fact.

I went to the theater this past Friday with very...

Pros: Good production values, innovative story.
Cons: Like other Clint Eastwood police thrillers, a trifle cartoonish.

In an interview a few years ago, Clint Eastwood was asked what was the principal characteristic of ...

Pros: Better than the movie. :)
Cons: None really. It's pretty solid.

"She raised her hand but reached past the photo he was still holding out to her. She placed her palm ...

Pros: Performances by Jeff Daniels, Anjelica Huston, classic opening chase and final scene aboard abandoned boat.
Cons: the two dumb cops, unfortunate shotgun scene.

I'm not quite sure I'd go so far as to call Clint Eastwood an auteur. Putting Eastwood on the same level as divas like Coppola and Robert Altman seems absurd. Eastwood's ambitions as a director are far too modest, and most of his recent work with the...