Cleaner

A neatly contained crime whodunit with a nifty setup and an expert lead performance from Samuel L. Jackson.

Cleaner needed serious editing and instead, seems intent on being long and drawn out to prove some sort of point.

Don't let the film's highbrow cast, portentous tone, and leisurely pace fool you: Cleaner is just as empty and formulaic as his previous films, just much, much duller.

Scrub away a needlessly fussy visual style, trendy narrative tweaks and a climax both morally repugnant and logically absurd, and there’s a tough little noir about buried transgressions coming out of the past in Renny Harlin’s lackluster thriller “Cleaner.” Too mainstream to attract genre interest, and too tangled in its character motivations to sit well with the multiplex crowd, this is a minor stain that should fade quickly and leave only faint traces in ancillary.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Average Die Hard clone directed by the usually dependable Campbell is a forgettable flick. It's boring until probably the last 15 minutes, yet it's too little too late. If you want to see somwthing of this ilk, watch G20 instead which was released quite close to this flick.

I didn't expect it to be good or ground breaking, but I wasn't prepared for how boring and lame it was. Imagine if someone from a cheap network tried to recreate Die Hard without a budget and bad writers. Imagine Sharknado without a tornado and without sharks. That might not be fair because I've never seen Sharknado, but I did see this dull movie. It's not entertaining. It's not even worth having a popcorn with. The dialog is bad. The acting is bad from everyone except perhaps the main actress, but she has absolutely nothing to work with so she's not great either. There's some stupid dialog. There's some actors trying to be over the top. In summary it was boring and needless.