Cleaner

However, Eva Mendes seems very out of place amongst these incredibly talented actors. While the production is very well done, the plot twists and turns in so many different directions ... Full Review

As such, Harlin's commentary track gives the usual lip service to locations, filmmaking techniques, casting, and theme; he seems to enjoy the competent surface of his work without the relish he brings to his best thrillers. Other scenes drop clues that the final film doles out in quick, inelegant flash cuts (it's as if the movie is flashing back to its special features, rather than earlier scenes). ... Full Review

Actually, the first third of the flick works reasonably well. In addition, the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack of Cleaner proved perfectly acceptable. Cleaner isn't a bad movie, but it's not a particularly interesting one. ... Full Review

Cleaner" suffers from a distracting case of visual jitters....Ill-conceived climax swiftly undoes whatever genre traction had been gained to that point..... ... Full Review

The film as noted is full of twists a dynamic cast and a lot of depth and up until the last few minutes is a really good crime thriller. Directed by Renny Harlin and written by Michael Aldrich it is a surprisingly fresh crime thriller that delivers up until the last few minutes where it comes apart. ... Full Review

Former New Jersey cop Tom Carver (Samuel L. Jackson) now runs Steri-Clean, a crime scene cleaning business, while raising teenage daughter Rose (Keke Palmer) in the wake of his wife's murder. ... Full Article

Throughout his career, vulgarian director Renny Harlin has made good movies, bad movies, and good-bad movies. Now he's made his first boring movie. In the latest thriller from Mr. And Mrs. Smith director Doug Liman, Hayden Christensen does the time ... Full Article

Director Renny Harlins cinematic GPA constantly dips over and under the line between B-movie bliss and C-movie oblivion; sometimes you get shlock as efficient and propulsive as Deep Blue Sea (1999), and sometimes you get a movie like The Covenant... ... Full Article

TORONTO -- Welcome back, Renny Harlin. After spending much of the past decade in B-movie purgatory ("The Covenant," "Mindhunters"), the "Die Hard 2" director returns to form with "Cleaner," a neatly contained crime whodunit with a nifty setup and an... ... Full Article

It has been a rough decade for Renny Harlin , with projects such as The Covenant and Mindhunters flopping, thus receiving banishment to Hollywood B-List obscurity. ... Full Article

A potentially compelling film noir story delivered in an irritatingly bright and overzealous package, Cleaner has two very excellent things going for it -- and their names are Samuel L. ... Full Article