Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)
Average Rating: 3/10
Reviews Counted: 82
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 79
Code Name: The Cleaner is a limp action/comedy flick that alternates between lame, worn-out jokes and cheesy martial arts.
Average Rating: 3.3/10
Critic Reviews: 23
Fresh: 2 | Rotten: 21
Code Name: The Cleaner is a limp action/comedy flick that alternates between lame, worn-out jokes and cheesy martial arts.
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A man who has lost his memory has a new and dangerous life thrust upon him in this comedy thriller. Jake (Cedric the Entertainer) is a janitor who finds himself stricken with a crippling case of amnesia. While Jake struggles to regain his memory and identity, he becomes convinced that he's an undercover spy who is trying to ferret out a ring of underground arms dealers wanted by the FBI and the CIA. As Jake is thrown into the world of international intrigue, he gains an unlikely ally in Gina
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Cedric the Entertainer
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Lucy Liu
Gina -
Nicollette Sheridan
Diane -
Mark Dacascos
Eric Hauck -
Callum Keith Rennie
Shaw -
Niecy Nash
Jacuzzi -
DeRay Davis
Ronnie -
Will Patton
Riley -
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Do anything: rob a petrol station, superglue your eyelids together, chew on broken glass, just avoid at all costs.
Top CriticThere's some pretty good improvised shtick from DeRay Davis as a wacky janitor. But these are small pleasures in a movie that never really generates any serious laughs.
Ponderous wisecracks and cloak-and-dagger high jinks pass for comic intrigue in this hapless mix of yuks and kicks.
Get Lucy Liu better roles!
How do films this stale and generic continue to get made, let alone with topflight talent? Cedric has been stealing scenes from bigger names for nearly a decade; he deserves better than a few amusingly-improvised minutes at the end of his own movie.
Aside from Cedric's admittedly appealing persona -- he's always watchable, even in dreck like this -- there's absolutely nothing to recommend The Cleaner, not the putative comedy nor the action, which kicks in only at the end.
Code Name: The Cleaner isn't the worse comedy ever made; it probably won't even be the worst of 2007. For the most part it's simply boring, with fleeting patches of ineptness.
The Entertainer conjures up some charm, and DeRay Davis provides pyrotechnics as a janitor/wanna-be rapper, but like the teddy-clad bubble-bath square-off between Liu and Sheridan, it's just not enough.
Amnesia action-comedy might hurt your brain, too.
Depressingly laugh-free comedy that's so irredeemably awful that you'll wonder why Martin Lawrence isn't in it.
The one laugh is in the production notes, where director Les Mayfield claims this is a comic take on the Jason Bourne movies. As if.
If you like comedies but hate going to the trouble of actually laughing, then this might just be the movie you've been waiting for.
Although comprised of lowest-common denominator gags, it's an oddly hard-to-follow affair, with good and bad FBI agents popping up everywhere and the plot only revealing itself in fits and starts.
The sooner Code Name... gets flushed out of cinemas, the better.
where the number-one superguy used to solve crazy mix-ups like this in 15 minutes, The Cleaner takes a laboured, exposition-larded hour and a half.
Code Name: The Cleaner is one of the year's big stinkers.
A prime candidate for Worst Movie Of 2007.
too clumsy to be the sophisticated parody of memory-loss films it might have been, too bland for its action sequences to kick any ass, too dumbed-down to make much out of the clashes of race, class and gender at the heart of its fish-out-of-water comedy
If Cedric the Entertainer's constant mugging for the camera is not your cup of tea, and a derivative plot, relatively humorless script, and mundane directing aren't up your alley, then best to clean Code Name: The Cleaner off your must-see list right now.
...the movie is simply boring, and Cedric has nothing worth doing or saying in it. Maybe next time.
...a rather silly and humorless affair that pretty much wastes Cedric's comic talents.
Not even diehard Cedric fans could stomach this cringe-inducing performance as a bumbling buffoon.
Not even diehard Cedric fans could find this cringe-inducing performance as a bumbling buffoon entertaining.
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