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12/27/07
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)
4 %
Reviews Counted: 77 Fresh: 3 Rotten:74 Average Rating: 3/10
Consensus:
As a supporting player, Cedric the Entertainer can be hilarious. As a leading man? Maybe not. Case in point: Code Name: The Cleaner, a limp action/comedy flick which alternates between lame, worn-out jokes and cheesy martial arts.
Rated: PG
Runtime: 84 mins
Theatrical Release: 07-12-2007
Synopsis: Cedric the Entertainer (JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION, BARBERSHOP) stars as Jake, a bumbling amnesiac, in the spy-parody caper CODE NAME: THE CLEANER. Waking up next to a dead FBI agent and a briefcase full of money, and with flashbacks to his combat training, Jake suspects... [More]
Genre: Comedies
Starring: Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, Elizabeth Hurley, Callum Keith Rennie
Director: Les Mayfield
Producer: Brett Ratner, Jay Stern, Eric C. Rhone, John Cheng
Composer: George S. Clinton
Producer: Brett Ratner, Jay Stern, Eric C. Rhone, John Cheng
Composer: George S. Clinton
Reviews
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.
12/07/07
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.
12/07/07
Top Critic
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.
12/07/07
Top Critic
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.
12/07/07
Do anything: rob a petrol station, superglue your eyelids together, chew on broken glass, just avoid at all costs.
12/07/07
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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
12/07/07
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01/15/08
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.
06/25/07
...a rather silly and humorless affair that pretty much wastes Cedric's comic talents.
04/24/07
There'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.
03/07/07
Beyond such amateurishly ill-constructed plot points, what should be a fast-moving film is slow and repetitious.
03/01/07
From its weak premise to its boring action to its unpleasant jokes, this movie fulfills the worst expectations of January releases: it's awful.
02/24/07
Ponderous wisecracks and cloak-and-dagger high jinks pass for comic intrigue in this hapless mix of yuks and kicks.
02/03/07
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