Sunday, 30 March 2025

Cleaner (2025) - The scoop and digest

Martin Campbell's action thriller is unrelated to 2007 film of same name.

Daisy Ridley - Joanna "Joey" Locke
Taz Skylar - Noah Santos
Matthew Tuck - Michael Locke
Ruth Gemmell - DS Hume
Rufus Jones - Geoffrey Milton
Lee Boardman - Gerald Milton
Clive Owen - Marcus Blake
Flavia Watson - Zee

Summary

When her abusive father starts on her autistic brother Michael, Joey blocks shit out by sitting outside on a window ledge.

20 years later, Joey works as a window cleaner for Agnian Energy, owned by brothers and CEO's Geoffrey and Gerald Milton.

On the night of a shareholder gala, a bunch of masked Gods show up.  But performers are actually members of radical environmental group Earth Revolution.

Via archive footage, Marcus Blake reveals that Agnian is dirtier than a baby's nappy, as company makes a fortune from destroying eco-systems and secretly murder whoever before they can expose the truth in court.

Among the victims was one of their own - Elena.

Joey alerts the police and ex-soldier must get inside and save the fucking day.

All flesh is grass

Essentially another Die Hard rip off, but certainly one of the better examples.

Joey - John McClane
Zee - female Theo
Hume - Al Powell

Marcus is initially Hans Gruber and Noah stands in for Karl, but as right-hand man murders leader early doors, Noah becomes Hans.

Oh, Agnian Tower is the equivalent of Nakatomi Plaza.

Although things don't really kick off until the final 30 minutes, close-quarters combat is pretty cool.

Here's the weird thing.

Noah wears a dead man's switch synched to his pulse, so if his heart stops beating, the whole building will explode.

Ma-Ma does the same thing in Dredd.

Coincidence?

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