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Cleaner (2007) 6.1
A former cop who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a cover-up at his latest job. Director:Renny HarlinWriter:Matthew Aldrich |
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Det. Jim Vargas
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Francine Mason
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A former cop who now earns a wage as a crime scene cleaner unknowingly participates in a cover-up at his latest job.
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With some crimes nobody gets out clean. See more »Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)
Rated R for bloody images, some violence and language | See all certifications »Parents Guide:
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Country:
USALanguage:
EnglishRelease Date:
18 January 2008 (Finland) See more »Also Known As:
Cleaner - Sein Geschäft ist der Tod See more »Box Office
Budget:
$25,000,000 (estimated)Company Credits
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Written by Cory Chisel
Performed by Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons
Published by Cory R. Chisel Publishing (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Fuse Recordings
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Renny Harlin: [Finland] In scene when Tom tells Eddie about the book of bribed officers, Helsinki (capital of Finland) is spray painted on a concrete pillar. See more »Goofs
Tom Cutler and Ann Norcut meet with Arlo Grange (the police coroner?) for Ann to identify her husband's body. When Vargas shows up, Tom uses the ruse that he just happened to be there and was going to go to lunch with Arlo as soon as Arlo was free. According to the clock on the wall, it was 5:30; whether a.m. or p.m., it was nowhere near time for lunch. See more »Soundtracks
"Getting By"Written by Cory Chisel
Performed by Cory Chisel & The Wandering Sons
Published by Cory R. Chisel Publishing (ASCAP)
Courtesy of Fuse Recordings
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Cleaner is a surprisingly boring and lackluster movie beautifully photographed. The casting is superb and would seem to be a sure recipe for cinematic success--Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, Eve Mendes and Luis Guzman. The dialog is decent and well acted. The plot is where this movie just completely drops the ball.
The plot begins mildly unbelievably--A crime scene cleaner becomes unwittingly immersed in the cover up of a homicide--and then just snowballs downhill from there into a huge police cover-up (I don't want to "spoil" anything for any potential viewers) with an unbelievable plot twist and then ends in a thoroughly stupid and highly implausible ending.
The upside and downside is this movie is beautifully filmed and with such talent, thought and effort that the cinematography itself keeps you thinking it has to get better and it only gets worse.
I hope Ed Harris got paid a lot of money to do this film! Ed does a great job with the little he has to go with and proves what a great actor he is. Eva Mendes does a poor job playing a recent widow to murdered husband (is she angry/sad/sexy/conspiratorial/or just a gold-digger who married a sugar daddy who just got knocked off?). Luis Guzman does a solid job as usual.
I seem to enjoy the movies where Samuel L. Jackson plays a supporting role or shares the lead rather than being the sole lead e.g. Pulp Fiction, The Negotiator, A Time To Kill, etc... In Cleaner he does a reasonable job with a poor plot until the end where his acting coupled with a bad plot twist left me wondering what I could have done better with the time it took to watch Cleaner.
All in all I wish this cast and DoP would have had a better script. I would recommend that Matt Aldrich stick to acting and give up the script-writing. As I think everything was done well except for the storyline/plot aka the script. I give kudos to Renny Harlin (director) for a job well done.