Cleaner

 

Cleaner 2007

• Director: Renny Harlin
• Seen by this director – Long Kiss Goodnight, Die Hard 2
• Based on the book: no
• Cast: Samuel L Jackson, Ed Harris, Eva Mendes, Luis Guzman, Keke Palmer
• Personal “oh yeah him/her” reaction, i.e. have seen this actor in:
• Samuel L Jackson – 51^st State, Glass, The Hateful Eight, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, Django Unchained, Jumper, 1408, Star Wars, Kill Bill, Changing Lanes, The Red Violin, Jackie Brown, The Long Kiss Goodnight, True Romance, Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction, Jungle Fever, Mo’ Better Blues, Sea of Love, Do the Right Thing
• Ed Harris – Cymbeline, Snowpiercer, Gone Baby Gone, Copying Beethoven, A History of Violence, The Human Stain, The Hours, A Beautiful Mind, Pollock, Glengarry Glen Ross
• Eva Mendes – Once upon a Time in Mexico
• Luis Guzman – lots of films
• Why? Samuel L Jackson
• Seen: 22 September 2022

      

       Tom (Jackson) is not just any cleaner. He cleans homes where people have died, sometimes violently. He’s a widower with a teen-aged daughter Rose (Palmer).

       He gets a homicide case, and he soon realises that something is off about it. He tries to stay out of it but is soon dragged into it.

       Any film with Jackson and Harris has merit but that’s about all this one has going for it. Boring story, typical corrupt cop stuff. 

2 * of 5