The Clean Up Crew

Awful acting, boring script - felt like a second rate Guy Ritchie movie - aiming to be a British crime movie but full.of Irish characters. It's his fault, he started this confusing genre.

This movie pushes the boundaries of how much of a diabolical script can sound funny if spoken in an Irish accent - the answer, not very much of it.

I found myself scrolling on my phone several times throughout the movie. There was no plot interesting enough to drag me back.

Believe me, this movie is terrible - don't waste your money and an hour and a half of your life.

Is this the end of good old British crime dramas, made in the UK and starring accomplished British actors? - Unfortunately it seems so and it really doesn't work.

Just because this film stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Melissa Leo, and Antonio Banderas don't be fooled. This is the most tiresome, tedious, uninteresting, and downright boring movie any of the above actors has ever been in. I'd like to blame the Covid area, or the writers strike. But that doesn't explain why this group of particular actors chose to be in this movie. My one word review would be rancid. This is the most tiresome, tedious, uninteresting, and downright boring movie any of the above actors has ever been in. I'd like to blame the Covid area, or the writers strike. But that doesn't explain why this group of particular actors chose to be in this movie. My one word review would be rancid.

Banderas plays a Spanish crime boss based in Ireland who is in cahoots with corrupt local police. This is established with some silly opening scenes, which at least tells us how to take this film - as a black comedy.

A few years ahead of the opening and things go awry as a shootout during a payoff leaves a case of money missing and the cops unpaid. Enter the four person clean-up crew, which includes Rhys Meyers, who find the case stashed up a chimney at the crime scene by the wounded sole survivor, whose return to the scene to recover it, is badly timed.

Mayhem ensues as Banderas sends another henchman to get the money back from the oddball foursome who are still deciding what to do with it. And no one really knows or accounts for the skills of the drugged-up, paranoid ex-military member of the quartet.

Banderas hams it up as the angry crime boss, who constantly quotes Machiavelli to almost everyone's annoyance, which would be amusing but for the fact that he stands out so much for doing so, when almost everyone else plays it straight and dry.

The rest of the cast, script and situations, tend to be, at most, mildly amusing rather than laugh-out loud funny. The humour does have a dry Irish quality to it, but it isn't very strong and doesn't come close to something like Derry Girls, nor is this movie a patch on the likes of an early Guy Ritchie move like Snatch or Lock Stock. Those were the places and heights that this movie seemed to hoping for, but misses by a considerable margin.

It's watchable, but only just. It could fill an hour and a half if you have nothing better to do or see.

Your classic too-much-action comedy movie Nothing new A simple story that doesn't need this much time to end They could've taken half of the time and it would have been just fine to get done with the story They should have made it a little more serious to attract more attention Or at least make it funnier But a little bit of both makes it boring

Otherwise, it's like the movie (bullet train) but cheaper

Bty, Those kinds of movies portrayed as black comedy are getting out of hand First, it started with the director of The Grand Budapest Hotel Wesley Anderson who made a great comedy with a little suspense then when he succeeded all other directors tried to copy it but most of the films came out like this one

I think this genre should be banned for anyone but him.

I watched this this movie for days but I had to complete it because I don't leave a movie unfinished poor story line, absolute horrible acting even with my favorite actor Antonio Banderas at first when I saw the movie poster I thought oh wait another Antonio Banderas movie this is gonna be excited but i come here to express my deepest disappointment I've never watched something more cringe and horrible in my life the director of this movie should never make movies again in my opinion also I think popular actors should avoid certain projects like the absolute rubbish I just watched movie lovers deserve the best.