Article: True to Type: Blood Work is not The Unforgiven, but it still has babes, good characters and Clint Eastwood.

Clint Eastwood is back directing and starring in a new suspense thriller that is scripted by Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential) and is based on a best selling detective novel by Michael Connelly. It's always great to have Eastwood back in the saddle, especially in this movie where he plays a character who is more or less his own age.

By Hollywood standards, that's pretty radical--especially for a 72-year-old man. The character he plays, veteran FBI profiler Terry McCaleb, is no Roger Murtaugh, the character played by Danny Glover in the Lethal Weapon films, who continually complains, "I'm getting too old for this shit." McCaleb may indeed be getting too old for this kind of work and the ...

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