
Tom Cutler, a retired police officer now runs a company which specialises in crime scene clean up. He is assigned a clean up job post a homicide. After doing the job he discovers that he has been conned into cleaning up a crime scene and must try to unravel the mystery behind what happened in that house.... (Full plot summary below)
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Tom Cutler, a retired police officer now runs a company which specialises in crime scene clean up. He is assigned a clean up job post a homicide. After doing the job he discovers that he has been conned into cleaning up a crime scene and must try to unravel the mystery behind what happened in that house.
Leave your thoughts about Cleaner.
| AV ClubNathan RabinDon'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. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael OrdonaOffers no surprises but is good-natured and funny. It's mercifully devoid of car chases, although it does have a truly inane gunfight -- did any of these trained killers ever hear of target practice? -- and some out-of-left-field martial arts. |
| Ebert & RoeperRichard RoeperI did like the dynamic between Samuel L. Jackson and Keke Palmer. I'd like to see them play father and daughter in the better film. |
| Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachThe movie finally comes to life when Liu turns up. |
| VarietyEddie CockrellScrub 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. |
| Hollywood ReporterMichael RechtshaffenA neatly contained crime whodunit with a nifty setup and an expert lead performance from Samuel L. Jackson. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliThe problem is, while the thriller aspects of the movie are serviceable, they aren't good enough to form the basis of anything more serious than a sit-com, and by spending as much time on them as Code Name: The Cleaner does, it makes the film at times seem drawn-out and tedious. |
| The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerCedric the Entertainer's artless performance deadens what could have been a much funnier comedy. |
| IGNJames MusgroveCleaner needed serious editing and instead, seems intent on being long and drawn out to prove some sort of point. |
| TV Guide MagazineKen FoxThe humor is too adult for children and the plot far too childish for most adults; in fact, everything about the film is really too silly to warrant much consideration. |