Blood Work

Blood Work is a decent thriller starring Clint Eastwood as former FBI agent Terry McCaleb, who feels obliged to investigate a murder case despite having retired.

Two years earlier Terry had to be hospitalised with heart failure just as he was getting on the trail of a serial killer. Now he is recovering after a heart transplant. Then he is approached by Graciala Rivers, the sister of the woman whose heart Terry has received. She is dissatisfied with the police investigation into her sister's murder and asks Terry for help. Terry feels he is in debt to Graciela and the murdered woman's little son, so he cannot refuse her plea.

Terry puts his health at risk to solve the murder, which the police have so far attributed to a desperate shop robber. Terry comes across a similar unsolved murder case. In this case, too, he doubts that it is all as simple as it first appears. There is something else behind it, but if it is not money or revenge, what is it? The story is full of surprises, and one of them is that the killer has from the outset intended Terry to play a leading role in the case.

I have already begun looking forward to Clint Eastwood's next film as director, in which he does not play the lead. Clint's screen romances with attractive women half his age are gradually bordering on the pathetic.