Cleaner [Movie Review]

Cleaner [Movie Review] | I saw the movie during the Eid holiday. With no expectations at all, I jumped in.

Did I like it?

SYNOPSIS

Cleaner (2025) Trivia

• Starring: Daisy Ridley, Taz Skylar & Clive Owen
• Director: Martin Campbell
• Producer: Michael Kuhn, Gavin Glendinning, Sebastien Raybaud, Callum Christopher Grant, Thomas Fanning, Chris Arthur & Cindy Cowan
• Production Company: Anton & Qwerty Films

• Distributed by: Warner Bros. Pictures & Warner Bros. Home Entertainment

• Release date: February 21, 2025

• Running time: 98 minutes
• Rating: R (For violence, language throughout, and brief drug use)
• Country: United Kingdom
• Language: English 
• IMDb: 4.9/ 10
• Tomatometer: 50%
• Metascore: 52% 

Joanna (Joey) and her brother Michael grew up in a London household marked by abuse. Every time Michael is beaten by their father, Joey will climb out and sit on the window edge with her headphones blaring to silence the cries and the noise.

In current time, 20 years later, Joey, now an ex-soldier who left the army after assaulting a misogynistic squad mate, became a window cleaner to escape her troubled past. Now an adult, she looks after Michael, who is autistic and exposing corruption at his care home online.

One day, Joey is forced to bring Michael to her job at One Canada Square in Canary Wharf to avoid losing her job. While she cleans windows with her colleague Noah, Michael sneaks away to join her. She was forced to work overtime if she still wanted her job.

That night, at a shareholder gala held by the Agnian energy company, an activist group called Earth Revolution takes over the building, using sleeping gas and holding the company’s board members hostage. The group, led by Markus Blake, is protesting Agnian’s environmental hypocrisy, exposing the company’s pollution despite its claims of promoting clean energy.

Noah, secretly part of the group, kills one of the Agnian owners despite Blake’s orders and usurps leadership by killing Markus. He rigs the hostages with explosives and sets a deadly trap. Joey and Michael barely escape being knocked out, but Joey is left hanging outside the building. She uses an SOS signal to alert the terrorists, but they think she’s neutralized and leave her outside.

The police surround the building and Noah forces the hostages to record confessions, manipulating Joey into framing herself as a terrorist. Police leader Claire, however, doubts the situation and allows Joey to contact her. With Claire’s reluctant permission, Joey sneaks inside to create an opening for a SWAT assault.

Can Joey take control of the situation, with Michael to mind by her side?

MY REVIEW

What I Like:  

• Straightforward plot. No drama. 

What I Don't Like:

• Too short for the fighting scene. Would love a little bit drama.
• And for the ending to be hanging like that for Joey and Michael?

Will I Watch It Again: Yes, I will.   

Overall: 4.4/ 5.0

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