Blood Work

Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels Director: Clint Eastwood Original UK Premiere: 2002 Dvd Release: 30th June, 2003 Number Of Discs: 1 Format: PAL, Region 2 Encoding

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Blood Work is a suspenseful mystery-thriller movie starring Clint Eastwood, Jeff Daniels & Anjelica Huston. Eastwood also directed. Eastwood won the Future Film Festival Digital Award at the Venice Film Festival. It is based on the 1998 novel by the same name from Hugo Award -winning writer Michael Connelly. Eastwood stars as an ailing veteran police detective whos been giving a second chance, by receiving the heart of a murder victim. Daniels, is Buddy, Clints friend & Huston plays Clints no-nonsense physician. Clint is visited by the murder victims sister, reminding him that he is alive only because of receiving the deceaseds heart & asks him to investigate who killed her. Soon he finds out, that somebody is killing people who are registered as organ donors. This movie has twists & turns especially at the end. Posters Of Blood Work

Clint does the grizzled ex-cop routine yet again. Blood Work contains so many U.S. cop-thriller cliches that its hard to keep count, although its the only thing that will keep you awake until the end.

The plot - what there is of it - is ill-conceived & weak, & the overall tone of the piece is damaged because it cant seem to decide what it wants to be....is it Lethal Weapon 5 or Silence of the Lambs 4??? Some moments are played for laughs, others aim at serious psycho-thriller genre, but all are lost because not one scene carries the weight of its convictions.

Angelica Houston is criminally underused, which suggests that the original cut of this film was entirely diffent. Absolute tripe.

Clint Eastwood is Gorillaz debut single, released off their self-titled album Gorillaz in March 2001. It peaked at the #4 in the UK & #57 in the US. The song is strangely reggae -ish hip-hop with melodic guitar & cheesy horror-film sounds, based on a sample of The Good, The Bad & The Ugly. The verses are rapped by Del tha Funkee Homosapien, portrayed as a blue phantom in the video, while the chorus is sung as a haunting melody by 2-D. Directed by Jamie Hewlett & Pete Candeland. The video is animated. Every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up & kills. The people it kills, get up & kill in English & Japanese. This phrase was deemed offensive in some countries & a censored video was produced that omits this intro. The band is seen performing the song in what appears to be a white room, or at the very least some sort of room depicting a digital television screen in the backdrop. Then something weird happens to Russel & his hat begins to rise up on its own. The ghost of Del appears & starts to rap the song, all the while leaving the Gorillaz dumbfounded. Posters Of Clint Eastwood

Editors Choice: Clint Eastwood, Million Dollar Baby, Blood Work, Mystic River, Space Cowboys, True Crime, Absolute Power, Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, View DVDology

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