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Movie Info

Ewen works for the secret service and is assigned the task of tracking down and eliminating a suicide bomber and his terrorist cell.

Genre:

mystery and thriller
Original Language:

English
Director:

Hadi Hajaig
Producer:

Hadi Hajaig, David Sumnall, Harry F. Rushton
Writer:

Hadi Hajaig
Release Date (Streaming):

Nov 18, 2016
Runtime:

1h 48m
Production Co:

UK Film Council

Cast & Crew

Sean Bean
Ewan

Abhin Galeya
Ash

Charlotte Rampling
Charlotte McQueen

Peter Polycarpou
Nabil

Tuppence Middleton
Kate

Tom Burke
Mark

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Critic Reviews for Cleanskin

All Critics (17) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (9) | Rotten (8)

There's a lovely frisson between Bean and Rampling that makes you think what James Bond and M could be.

September 10, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Tara Brady
Irish Times
The ambition is laudable even if the execution isn't as smooth or detailed as it might have been.

August 23, 2012

Leslie Felperin
Variety
You couldn't ever accuse Hadi Hajaig's film of being one-sided: it has two, both of them stupid.

March 9, 2012 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Tim Robey
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Cleanskin has Charlotte Rampling dying, spiritually at least, on a bench. It can be contagious.

March 8, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Nigel Andrews
Financial Times
It plays like a lad-mag fantasy of counterterrorist work, juxtaposing mediocre action sscenes with a lot of deadly serious Islamist rhetoric.

March 8, 2012 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Peter Bradshaw
Guardian
With a better script editor, this could have been a character-piece comparable, maybe, to Showtime's Homeland.

March 8, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Tom Seymour
Little White Lies
The film certainly has ambition and there are some memorable fight scenes, but it also lacks the extra oomph that could have done for Bean's action-movie career what Taken did for Liam Neeson's.

August 23, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

David Aldridge
Radio Times
It's perhaps one credibility-straining twist too many for the film, which up until then does a solid job of aping slicker, bigger-budgeted Hollywood thrillers.

August 23, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Simon Reynolds
Digital Spy
A slick action drama with a strong cast, including Tuppence Middleton, Charlotte Rampling and Michelle Ryan, that delivers in terms of violence, gunplay and conspiracy thrills.

March 15, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…

Mark Adams
Daily Mirror (UK)
It's a competent, conventional thriller, but there's something suspiciously unbalanced going on here.

March 11, 2012 | Full Review…

Philip French
Observer (UK)
As a rather far-fetched work of faction, Cleanskin left me feeling rather grubby about the world that we live in - and not entertained.

March 9, 2012 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…

Graham Young
Birmingham Mail
As if we don't have enough gullible folk believing 7/7 and 9/11 conspiracy theories already, this poor thriller comes along to popularise the paranoia.

March 8, 2012 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…

Alex Zane
The Sun (UK)