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Release Date: 27 December, 2002 Retail Price: $14.98 OUR Price: $12.99 You SAVE: $1.99! Cast: Complete Cast (5 total) |
Blood Work (Widescreen Edition) Reviews
Eastwood mystery
Genre: Mystery, Drama
Genre Grade: B+
Final Grade: B
This was a great Clint Eastwood film (he directed and starred in it). His acting was superb in it, and the story pulled itself together well. Eastwood is so good with lighting effects in creating visual tension and keeping the audience in suspense. So many directors of our day seem to have forgotten the power of a simple lightbulb. The only part I didn't like about this movie was its predictability because it follows basic genre lines too much. I had the killer figured out ten minutes into the movie, and there was no suprises to keep me on the edge of my seat or awed. I recommend this movie though, because I don't know if most audiences would be able to figure out the killer as quickly as I did, I just could see through the plot and knew what was going to end up happening.
Not A Very Enticing Title For A Blood Debt Mystery.
This was typical Eastwood fare, starring an aging FBI agent out trying to do what the younger policemen couldn't do. In his job with the FBI, the agents call this kind of thing, blood work, as all "blood debts are paid in blood."
His woman doctor, played by Anjelica Huston, conveniently does not tell him where his donated heart (transplant) came from; when the donor's sister arrives at his houseboat asking for his assistance in finding the murderer, he is shocked to find out that he now has the heart of a young Hispanic woman.
He decides to do his own investigation since he is now "retired" but the police refuse to aid him in any way. A person from his past is a bit too interested in the case, and has "souvenirs" collected from other recent murders, including the necklace of this young mother of a son. As he confronts him with the facts, the killer, played skillfully by Jeff Daniels, tells him "I saved You."
The L. A. Harbor is beautiful in the daytime with the bright blue sky but too many of the action scenes took place in the dark. Not so exciting as the book written in 1998 by a former crime reporter, Michael Connelly, but Clint did it all -- producer, director, star -- which he is so good at in his later years.
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