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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Taz Skylar
- Noah
- (as Taz Skyler)
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Sol E. Romero
- Halina
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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...
This movie at its kindest review is mediocre. It's not the worst movie I've ever watched but it no where the best I've ever watched. I totally understand why it started the way it did, it gave a tiny back story. But the character of her brother having autism seemed to have no place in this movie at all. It actually made his character confusing and inconsequential until the end and even then him being autistic had no bearing on the character. The action was decent, the story is the same ole story, and the acting ehhh it just felt off. Will I recommend this movie to others, I seriously doubt it. Will I watch it again, absolutely not. On to the next.
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.
The plot feels like a recycled version of something that's been done countless times before, with the only twist being a nerdy character carrying a "Thor hammer," as if begging for mercy from the younger audience. There's little to no effort put into character development, so we couldn't care less about the protagonist or any of the characters, for that matter. There's no suspense, no mystery, just a predictably failed attempt at being a pure action film, which also fell flat. It's hard to find anything positive to say, but here's an attempt: the villain and the cop lady somewhat tried to carry the rest of the cast, but their efforts hardly made a difference. Picture quality was good, lol. You can invite a girl over and play this when you are not really interested in watching. This is one of those movies where you wonder why they even bothered making it, and you're relieved it wasn't any longer.
This movie made me so angry. I can forgive stupid plots... but not like this. This was just too damn stupid. I saw the bad ratings and thought "Clive Owen and Daisy Ridley, I'm sure I can still enjoy it". I was wrong. It would've been fine if an ex-soldier (Ridley) just slowly takes out terrorists, like Die Hard, just dumber. That's something I can enjoy. But Ridley's character was just so damn inept. It was truly painful to watch. I later saw that three people got writing credits. That's usually a sign that the script was passed from writer to writer in a desperate attempt to fix it and it never ever works. The acting was alright, director too. Not great, but OK. But the script was a total dumpster fire. I am still so angry at this movie.
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 Ophélie (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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- 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
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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