A prime candidate for Worst Movie Of 2007.
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12/07/07
Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)
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Reviews Counted:78
Fresh:3
Rotten:75
Average Rating:2.9/10
Consensus: Code Name: The Cleaner is a limp action/comedy flick that alternates between lame, worn-out jokes and cheesy martial arts.
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... [More]
Starring: Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, Elizabeth Hurley
Director: Les Mayfield
Reviews for Code Name: The Cleaner
Top Critictoo 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
Top CriticThe sooner Code Name... gets flushed out of cinemas, the better.
12/07/07
Top CriticCode Name: The Cleaner is one of the year’s big stinkers.
12/07/07
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
Do anything: rob a petrol station, superglue your eyelids together, chew on broken glass, just avoid at all costs.
12/07/07
Top Criticwhere 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
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 CriticDepressingly laugh-free comedy that's so irredeemably awful that you'll wonder why Martin Lawrence isn't in it.
12/27/07
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
[A] cheerfully dumb spy comedy filled with ridiculous stereotypes and plot holes as big as cartoon anvils.
01/05/07
Director Les Mayfield can only do so much with the anemic, obvious script by Robert Adetuyi and George Gallo. And while his limited action sequences are very solid, this is a comedy, and within it he doesn't do much for his actors.
01/04/07
Cedric the Entertainer doesn't really act here so much as riffs, as if he's working out the kinks in a misconceived stand-up routine. Some of his ad-libs are funny, but you know you're in trouble when the outtakes are funnier than the film as a whole.
01/05/07
From past experience, viewers know that Cedric the Entertainer can be very funny. While there are times when Code Name: The Cleaner highlights his comedic abilities, there aren't enough of them.
01/04/07
The talented comedian mugs his way through an utterly deflated film.
01/20/07
It's not often that a 90 minute film could lose twenty minutes and still end up with an identical result, but Code Name: The Cleaner does pull that off. If only someone had made [director Les] Mayfield aware of that somewhere along the line.
01/04/07
Even as a comedy all of this begs credulity.
01/13/07
...the comedy half doesn't work without the intrigue half, and director Mayfield doesn't look like he would know intrigue if Martin Scorsese brought it to him wrapped in butcher paper with a bow on top.
01/05/07
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
Well, you really can't expect much from comedies this time of year.
01/14/07
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