Review of Cleaner (2007) by Eddie Cockrell for Variety — 13 Sep 2007
Scrub away a needlessly fussy visual style, trendy narrative tweaks and a climax both morally repugnant and logically absurd, and there’s a tough little noir about buried transgressions coming out of the past in Renny Harlin’s lackluster thriller “Cleaner.
” Too mainstream to attract genre interest, and too tangled in its character motivations to sit well with the multiplex crowd, this is a minor stain that should fade quickly and leave only faint traces in ancillary.
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This review of Cleaner (2007) was written by Eddie Cockrell and published by Variety on 13 Sep 2007.
Cleaner has generally received mixed reviews.
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