Criminal activists hijack a gala, taking 300 hostages. One extremist plans mass murder as a message to the world. An Ex-soldier turned window cleaner now works to rescue the hostages.Criminal activists hijack a gala, taking 300 hostages. One extremist plans mass murder as a message to the world. An Ex-soldier turned window cleaner now works to rescue the hostages.Criminal activists hijack a gala, taking 300 hostages. One extremist plans mass murder as a message to the world. An Ex-soldier turned window cleaner now works to rescue the hostages.
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Quite Easily the Best Movie Ever Made!
I'm joking, of course. Looks a lot like someone was channeling Die Hard when they wrote the script. Every time I thought they weren't going to take from that movie, they found another homage...
Ridley is not bad as an action star. I'd watch another movie with her in it. Clive Own, who wasn't in the movie enough to warrant third billing, was fine. Matthew Tuck, on the other hand, was unbelievable as the autistic brother. I think that distracted me a lot.
It had a predictable ending, one I will not divulge here. All in all, not particularly good. All in all, not particularly bad...
See this one after you've seen every other movie, just for closure...
Ridley is not bad as an action star. I'd watch another movie with her in it. Clive Own, who wasn't in the movie enough to warrant third billing, was fine. Matthew Tuck, on the other hand, was unbelievable as the autistic brother. I think that distracted me a lot.
It had a predictable ending, one I will not divulge here. All in all, not particularly good. All in all, not particularly bad...
See this one after you've seen every other movie, just for closure...
How to get 2 movie stars take up the offer and get the least out of it?
The answer is this film. Make the two stars do the bare minimum so you don't have to pay them too much? I don't really get it tho. Like all the money went to the production and Campbell? Clive Owen essentially pulls a Bruce Willis here. Total screen time probably didn't exceed 5 minutes and you got Daisy Ridley outside of the building for 3/4 of the film, doing nothing when she should've just did something to begin with and save us all the stupid ass runtime. This movie would be over in 40 minutes. I'm rambling along here cuz there's a minimum characters required to post a review apparently. I don't write reviews that often...
Cleaner was not bad
Cleaner is a blaned action movie looks alike any Grindstone Entertainment Group direct-to-video film but on a limited run in my cinema, good for you scrambled that in the cinemas watch list. With a script that recycling every idea from a variety of box-office hits. Despite a talented cast and skilled director, it's little more than a spliced-together version of better films-specifically, riffs on the Die Hard (1988) scenario, where a single hero fights off terrorists in an isolated location. Most of such copycats & borrows followed in the 1990s and innovated with unique settings, such as a Navy battleship in Under Siege (1992), a plane in Passenger 57 (1992), a mountain in Cliffhanger (1993), a bus in Speed (1994), a hockey stadium in Sudden Death (1995), and the twin White House examples from 2013, Olympus Has Fallen and White House Down. I have seen so many movies like this that the subgenre has moved beyond mere variations on a theme and entered the realm of mind-numbing cliche, mainly because studios seldom attempt to deviate from a proven formula. A great movie may yet come along and revive the concept, but Cleaner is not. This was only a one-time watch, not thinking about this movie and not going to bother having it on vod because it would consider be a bust. 5.5/10 the action is good but characters dialogue is demanding sometimes.
Not the "Die Hard" I hoped for
In 1988, one of the best action movies ever was released - Die Hard, which was groundbreaking, and is still fun to watch today.
Since it was released 37 years ago, many movies have tried to replicate its success. Some have succeeded, some have not.
The movie Cleaner tries to be the "Die Hard" of 2025, but it fails to do so.
The plot is not convincing or interesting enough, nor are the few action moments.
Despite everything, I did like the idea that the heroine of the film is a window cleaner. This is undoubtedly the film's strong point, but that's where it ends.
In conclusion, I would not recommend running to watch this movie. The acting is mediocre, there is not much action, and overall it is a movie that you can skip.
Since it was released 37 years ago, many movies have tried to replicate its success. Some have succeeded, some have not.
The movie Cleaner tries to be the "Die Hard" of 2025, but it fails to do so.
The plot is not convincing or interesting enough, nor are the few action moments.
Despite everything, I did like the idea that the heroine of the film is a window cleaner. This is undoubtedly the film's strong point, but that's where it ends.
In conclusion, I would not recommend running to watch this movie. The acting is mediocre, there is not much action, and overall it is a movie that you can skip.
Too dumb, even for this genre
I like Daisy Ridley a lot, and I think she does her best to carry the film, but I just found myself rolling my eyes far too often to enjoy this mess.
I can only suspend disbelief to a certain point, and above every other problem is this... How does everything in the first half of the film happen EXACTLY where the one window cleaner happens to be. This is a four-sided skyscraper!!! Also, people have regular conversations through the glass, one canister of gas in a hallway is enough to knock out everyone on every floor, people travel multiple floors in no time at all, SOOOO many clichès, etc. And as much as I rooted for Daisy to win, it's hard to feel sorry for the hostages.
There was some fun action, though nothing outstanding, and it was capably directed in a way that was very easy to follow. Also, I really enjoyed Matthew Tuck as her brother. Could've been a very annoying character, but he grounded it enough for me.
I can only suspend disbelief to a certain point, and above every other problem is this... How does everything in the first half of the film happen EXACTLY where the one window cleaner happens to be. This is a four-sided skyscraper!!! Also, people have regular conversations through the glass, one canister of gas in a hallway is enough to knock out everyone on every floor, people travel multiple floors in no time at all, SOOOO many clichès, etc. And as much as I rooted for Daisy to win, it's hard to feel sorry for the hostages.
There was some fun action, though nothing outstanding, and it was capably directed in a way that was very easy to follow. Also, I really enjoyed Matthew Tuck as her brother. Could've been a very annoying character, but he grounded it enough for me.
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Did you know
- TriviaThis is the second time Daisy Ridley and Clive Owen have played a protagonist and antagonist in the same movie. Their first movie was Ophelia (2018).
- GoofsWhen the Joey is outside she has a conversation with someone of the inside of the building - they can hear each other easily as no one has to raise their voice. Glass like this in towers is very thick and tough and would deaden noises. A proof of how tough the glass is that later on she tries to break the glass with a heavy wrench without success..
- ConnectionsReferenced in Film Threat: CLEANER | Film Threat Reviews (2025)
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- Also known as
- Клінер
- Filming locations
- Winnersh Film Studios, UK(1020 Eskdale Road Wokingham RG41 5TS)
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- Budget
- £25,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $794,091
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $403,560
- Feb 23, 2025
- Gross worldwide
- $1,314,073
- Runtime
- 1h 37m(97 min)
- Color
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- 2.39 : 1
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