Can Blood Work be compared with Se7en, Resurrection, Bone Collector, Taking Lives or perhaps Kiss the Girls???
I like to know, because I am consider to order it, but I like to know some info about it first...
And since I like the other movies I just mentioned very much, then it would just be great if this one is similar to them...
Can anybody just give me an simple answer... please...?
no, its not as good as any
The Dude Abides
Believe you me... Blood Work is much better than Seven. It's a more cerebral movie and not for some teeny boppers. It's much better directed as well.
sharemjazz1 please oh please tell me you are joking. blood work is a joke. the token funny cop isnt funny, the twist is stupid, etc. etc. bad movie all around. Seven is not for teeny boppers, you just dont like it because its popular, which is lame.
The Dude Abides
I agree that "Blood Work" is better than "Seven," although I liked "Seven" quite a bit. Eastwood put a sensible movie out there, and since it wasn't overly complex, some people disliked it. It's not plodding. He is a man who prides himself on slow-moving, real life work. It's better than a few of the movies listed in the beginning, and most of those are watchable or better. Some people are just a tad overcritical and forget to enjoy the movie. No offense.
shareBlood Work looks less like a film based on a film but more or less being rather based on reality. This film is much more real, and let's not forget the fact that Eastwood is ten times better filmmaker than some very average director like Fincher. Eastwood knows how to make movies in a good old fashioned way.
shareYou guys have to be kidding. I love Clint, but this movie is just plain bad. The twist is apparent since the beginning, the mexican cop character is one of the worst I've ever seen, and clint uses very cheesy camera moves that make his directing seem kind of amateurish. The camera movement tells you what's going to happen, more than they help you to understand what's happening. Can't even belive that this movie was directed by the same man that directed Mystic River. It's just plain horrible.
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If you like the code stuff from bone collector and se7en this will dissapoint I think. If you're more into the characters and the story this is a better movie.
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A tad harsh calling a film retarded but I agree with your TV comment it does come across as a really well made straight to TV film. There is no point even trying to compare it to Seven as they are completely different styles of movie regardless that they are both about someone after an illusive killer. Seven is very much style over substance although the substance is very good so therefore it works, Blood Work is a very simplistic back to basics who dunnit with a twist. The only problem with films with a twist these days is that there really are only a few ways to twist it and if an audience are aware there is a twist they spend the whole film guessing, so they can say they knew from the start, instead of letting it flow over them. I personally think whilst simplistic it did its job and kept me entertained and whilst I did not get the twist from the start I did get it just before Clint which is I guess is what the direction hoped for. As for acting Clint was Clint and I think the only slight weakness was the actress playing the sister (Wanda De Jesus), for an example check the scene where Clint is having his blood work done and she is comforting him, very TV soap.
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That sums it up right there. It is sophmoric compared to Se7en. It was realistic, yes, but to the point of being completely unbelievable.
You knew who the killer was, you knew why, and the acting itself was so wooden that the only thing to look forward to was how he was going to put the pieces together.
Examples:
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1. Why was Jeff Daniels even a character in the film, unless he was going to be the killer?
2. Why, when he figured it out, did he have to draw a line in the check to seperate Noone into No/one? And why did they have that on camera? Did they think the audience didn't get it?
3. Why have sex with a man who had a heart transplant two months earlier, when he is already under duress from the job of finding the killer of the person whose heart he has, which happens ot be your sisters, and you were the one who told him?
4. Why would his doctor refuse to see him, then break the law with out even really putting up a fight, and then only under the condition that he have Blood Work done, which had no effect on the movie other than provide a clue?
I'd compare this to Red Dragon before I would compare it to Se7en. Both had the potential to be a great movies, but the acting and direction ruined it. The subtleties, the over-obvious nature of the fact and clue finding, the worthless conversational dialogue, and the inability to build tension ruined both films.
I agree with you, I absolutly love Clint, but this film was predictable, overly expositional, poorly directed, ("Sunglasses..." *CAMERA ZOOM IN, FLASH TO GUY, CAMERA ZOOM OUT*) and suprisingly badly written considering it's from the same writer as L.A. Confidential.
And you forgot
5.) Paul Rodriguez. No need to explain, he just kills every scene he's in.
And whoever called Se7en a teeny bopper film, you have obviously never seen Se7en. Se7en was a truly disturbing, tense and thrilling film that had faith the audience could connect the dots without showing them everything, and had some true style to it. Blood Work was, as someone mentioned, an above average made for TV movie that accidentally made it to the big screen. I don't consider David Fincher the next great director, not close, but he knows how to put things together properly, something Clint obviously dropped for this film. I expected so much after Unforgiven and Mystic River.
I expected so much after Unforgiven and Mystic River
it's a solid film. watched it again today. the only thing out of the whole movie i could say that i don't like, is the fact that Clint Eastwood always sounds so quite and a harsh voice so it's sometimes unclear what he's saying...especially in this movie. worth a pick-up for sure.
shareWhile Blood Work was a good movie, it does not compare in the style of the movies you mentioned. Blood Work isn't so much as figuring out when the killer will strike again and the end result being more gruesome then the next. This was actually quite entertaining for a movie directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. Not to say that Clint Eastwood is terrible at both, he just isn't the outlaw Josey Wales anymore. But in short...no, this movie CANNOT be compared to Seven, Resurrection, Bone Collector, Taking Lives, or Kiss the Girls. It doesn't go as far into the genre as these movies do.
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CKlubStriP, Maybe because it doesn't try to appease majority by its overly deep focus on the psychological study of the characters, which went completely against all the expectations when someone thinks this is another typical thriller. Which comes to the point when one can only admit that what's not popular, let alone another brainless blockbuster, it doesn't immediately have to be a bad film, and also it can also very much be a great film to some, even though it'd concern the minority.
shareJeez people cry a lot here. All the whiners & "crack/dope" smokers & "drunkards". Grow up, folks. Anyways...
For what it's worth, I do not know if Se7en was based on a novel, but I DO know that Blood Work was (written by Michael Conelly), and the ending was severly distorted from the novel. Read it & you will understand why. I bought the movie because I enjoyed the novel, but gave it away in disapointment.
Se7en was suspenseful, not to mention had some great acting in it (Freeman, Pitt, & Spacey) whereas besides Eastwood & Daniels, Blood Work had a lesser known & (in my opinion) lesser skilled cast.
All of this though is purely my opinion, and your mileage may vary.
No comparison. Blood Work is a stink burger.
sharethis movie is not a pimple on the ass of Seven
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