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I'm a big fan of Daisey and also Clive Owen and the Director Martin Campbell (Casino Royal) - but this lame rip off script has little character development or arc - and instead it's just another Hollyweird movie that swaps out Bruce Willis for a chick with a gun. Daisey definitely deserves better scripts as this B script is a direct to video with no real substance and the actors cleaned out Hollywood for a nice pay check. Maybe the suits will learn to make original scripts instead of more rip offs. What's next Ramba - the female Stallone warrior.

At least Clive Owen was smart enough to take a fast paycheck and disappear early in the story so go in with super low expectations and just laugh at the preposterous plot but the action is solid if you can stop laughing at how silly the story actually transpires with one dimensional main character and silly eco terror villains from a cracker box. Maybe AI generated script.

Good news is that Michael Stratham ( Mechanic series) or Charlize Theron ( Atomic series) has nothing to worry about from competition from this lame film.

5 stars for the lead actors and director.

Corporate greed, eco-activism, terrorism, and a window-cleaner ex-military girl taking down the bad guys who seized her building.

I'll be brief.

This movie is neither particularly fun nor satisfying. The premise shows promise but reveals its hand too early and quickly loses steam. The action is serviceable, the villains are a yawn, and the characters, their motivations, dialogue, and their resolution are all too generic to leave a lasting impression. On top of that, the pacing drags in places, the ending fails to deliver, and the emotional beats between the siblings never quite land. Does it attempt to make a statement about environmental destruction and corporate accountability? If so, it does so in the dullest way possible.

Die Hard, this is not, so the comparisons are moot. Here, the villains hold all the cards (they control the police, the building, and the hostages) and yet the heroine somehow becomes an inexplicable problem for them. There's a script issue, but also an execution problem, as Miss Ridley is competent in the role, but her casual attitude while committing "action" feels jarring and undermines any sense of real danger.

At least it is short (90 minutes, and it feels even shorter). Watch if you want a generic action movie.

I don't think "Cleaner" was much like "Die Hard" at all. Do you realize she didn't get into the building until an hour and ten minutes into the movie? And she was only inside for about the last fifteen minutes. Anyway, I liked the set-up, I thought the characters felt real, the dialogue was good, and I was positively surprised by the political aspects of making the corrupt suits confess. But I was also disappointed that she spent THAT much time on the outside of the building, and that the political stuff only barely rated a mention at the end. They could have had a really cool movie here, but the structure and the plot decisions kept it from getting really good. I still give it a 6 star rating, and will probably watch it again sometime. It's a shame that a movie with such a good set-up managed to botch much of the promised potential in the third act. But I thought Daisy Ridley was really good, and this movie made me want to see her in more stuff.

I feel many of the reviews posted here are being very unfair to this film. We feel the same exhilaration for our loner character taking on the terrorists as we did with the Bruce Willis flick, and the fact that it is a strong woman character gives the film an extra punch. Both Daisy Ridley and Taz Skylar deliver standout performances. The action scenes are just as thrilling to watch as they were in Die Hard. I'd also argue that there is far more character development here than there ever was in Dire Hard. Also, almost all the user reviews completely ignore the unique brother - sister aspect to the story. Of course its "generic," It's a genre picture. But so was Die Hard to begin with. I found the movie great fun and thoroughly enjoyable.

No matter what everybody else says, I enjoyed this movie. It wasn't a Yank movie, which made it a lot more enjoyable than Die Hard, which I also enjoyed. These were Brit actors who could actually act, and they made the movie worth buying and watching. The star of the movie, a female, was worth watching, and I hope to see her in more movies. I am a Brit who has been living in Canada for 50 years and would love to see more British movies. I am sick and tired of Hollywood glitz; I enjoy British and Bollywood movies. Even my Canadian kids have learned to love British movies. Brit and Bollywood movies are underrated in North America.

While I had indeed not heard about the 2025 action thriller "Cleaner", when I stumbled upon it by random chance, of course I had to check it out. Especially since the movie had Clive Owen on the cast list.

The storyline in the movie was adequate. Sure, it was a watchable action thriller, but I have to say that I was left with an overwhelming sensation of having just watched a 2025 take on the 1988 movie "Die Hard". It was a bit odd that writers Simon Uttley, Paul Andrew Williams and Matthew Orton collectively couldn't muster more than a remake of the 1988 "Die Hard" movie. But hey, "Cleaner" was a watchable movie, nonetheless.

I was only familiar with leading actress Daisy Ridley and Clive Owen on the cast list. And it was a shame that Clive Owen wasn't given a bigger part to play in the movie, because he could definitely have spruced up the movie quite a bit.

There is a fair amount of action throughout the course of the movie, and it looks good. And I will say that it definitely helped to lift up the movie.

"Cleaner" is a movie worth checking out if you enjoyed the 1988 movie "Die Hard". But this time it is with a female lead.

My rating of director Martin Campbell's 2025 action thriller "Cleaner" lands on a six out of ten stars.

The plot feels like a recycled version of something that's been done countless times before, with the only twist being a nerdy character carrying a "Thor hammer," as if begging for mercy from the younger audience. There's little to no effort put into character development, so we couldn't care less about the protagonist or any of the characters, for that matter. There's no suspense, no mystery, just a predictably failed attempt at being a pure action film, which also fell flat. It's hard to find anything positive to say, but here's an attempt: the villain and the cop lady somewhat tried to carry the rest of the cast, but their efforts hardly made a difference. Picture quality was good, lol. You can invite a girl over and play this when you are not really interested in watching. This is one of those movies where you wonder why they even bothered making it, and you're relieved it wasn't any longer.

If you've seen the trailer, you're probably confused at the low rating. I mean, action pack movie, right? Wrong.

25 mins in and there is still 0 action and everyone in the movie so far is completely insufferable. They're toxic beyond toxic, like literal 25 mins assault on your senses.

And it you wonder if this is deliberate. It is just so irritating, giving me a migraine just sitting there waiting for the action to begin. What a terrible writing. I have never been this annoyed by a movie in a long time.

Perhaps it just need some editing, but seriously, I can't even go through the whole film.

1/10.

Yeah, the movie isn't perfect, but I had a good time. Showed a female protagonist kick ass without being weird about it. Not many movies where you see that. If you like movies with unique premises you will like this one. It is an atmospheric movie that is largely set inside the sky-tower building and the windows outside of it, where the protagonist is a window cleaner stuck on a lift outside the tall building and is trying to help stop the terrorists inside the building while largely restrained to the lift. It was effective as a thriller as it kept me at the edge of my seat. I would rate this movie 7 stars instead of 6 but the reason I gave it a 6 is because I just think it could have been done better. I left feeling that I had a good time, but it was just decent and not excellent.

In 1988, one of the best action movies ever was released - Die Hard, which was groundbreaking, and is still fun to watch today.

Since it was released 37 years ago, many movies have tried to replicate its success. Some have succeeded, some have not.

The movie Cleaner tries to be the "Die Hard" of 2025, but it fails to do so.

The plot is not convincing or interesting enough, nor are the few action moments.

Despite everything, I did like the idea that the heroine of the film is a window cleaner. This is undoubtedly the film's strong point, but that's where it ends.

In conclusion, I would not recommend running to watch this movie. The acting is mediocre, there is not much action, and overall it is a movie that you can skip.

I really had a blast with this film. Of course it's no Oscar material (what is, these days, actually...) and of course 'Die Hard' is not very far away, but please, why all this overthinking? Just try to enjoy a movie without analyzing it too much. There's a great setting, the actors are doing a decent job. The actress playing Joey is sexy, beautiful and has humor. Too bad to see one of the main characters go quite early in the story. I wasn't bothered by the cliché of activism, eco-terrorism and so, since a lot of it doesn't make sense.

The real bad guy wants to pull it off, but is a desperate wreck to my taste. He knows he's eventually has to pick the shortest straw. Funky action flick.

My god this is film was awful, it's a die hard rip off with girl bosses, just nobody believes the girl boss.

This was like watching a spoof because it was so comical how bad it was. There are many good female lead films and this was not one of them. I would not recommend wasting time watching this film, it felt like it was made just to empower woman but instead just made them look like a joke.

The script is cringe, the acting is cringe. The girls are the heroes in almost all areas even on the bad guy team. To be enjoyable it needs to have a likeable character, script or even plausibility, it's so far fetched I was half expecting Daisy Ridley to start flying after she became the black widow.

This was a truly awful experience to have to suffer through, bad acting, bad script and well, bad everything really. The main characters are never particularly believable, which means we're on to a loser from the start, the inclusion of the neurodivergent side kick felt like the must have accessory of the day. Things change and that's probably a good thing, but this film proves we're still in the tearing down stage and not at the build back better stage yet. Good strong female leads are great fun, and should be encouraged, but this one just didn't hit the mark. It felt like all the boxes were ticked except for make a good film.

TL;DR, not great but okay, but man do some things get to me.

Look I've seen my fair share of bad action films, believe me I'm a sucker for poorly written films.

This movie isn't good narrativly, I'll say that, but it atleast managed to do some things right that made it a step above other bad action films. It tried to take time to build its characters, it wasn't incredibly one-note, and it didn't just jump straight into the action/fights but took the time to build toward it.

The one thing that really gets me is the final confrontation. It doesn't feel like one at all. Just a quick little fight, and boom, the movie ends. Also, not really a fan of the depiction of Autism in the film. It kind of plays into the stereotype that people with Autism are just infantile.

Overall, not great but okay, but man do some things get to me.

I saw this one at the theaters about 30 minutes before writing this review.

Overall - the movie is watchable; the 90 minutes didn't drag. But I wasn't blown away by the quality. I anticipate that I may forget this movie in short time

What I like: Daisy Ridley is likable; the scenes with her brother are charming; and I like the London setting. The action scenes are well-done. I was concerned, based on the premise, about scenes where a tiny girl overpowers some 200 pound men, but really - the movie doesn't over-do it. Daisy's character relies more on stealth than force/strength. The window-cleaning scenes are also fun. The movie captures the tenseness of being so high off the ground in some scenes. Nothing in the movie, from dialogue to CGI, is cringe or embarassingly low-quality

What I didn't like: the biggest flaw, by far, is that there really isn't much that we haven't seen before. The movie is an amalgam of action movies cliches, borrowing many elements from Die Hard and the Jean Claude Van Damme/Jason Statham movies. The entire plot basically goes in the direction that you would predict, aside from one early major death (no spoilers; I won't say). The other main issue is that the villains aren't as charming or interesting as the lead. The main villain is Lucas Santos, and there is a lot of attention towards his hatred of humanity (the movie itself seemingly plays on his views by referencing Thanos, who advocated killing half of humanity). Overall, Lucas Santos is too over-the-top psychotic, almost to the point of cartoonish. His diatribes against humanity begin to drag on. I also would've cast a different actor in that role. The actor who plays Lucas doesn't impart the fear that this role required.

6.5/10.

A group of eco terrorists lead by a man who makes Alan Rickman seem level headed, take over a party at the top of Agnian Tower forcing the execs to confess to all sorts of environmental crime, corruption and murder. Working late and outside the building is cleaner and ex soldier Joey (Daisy Ridley) who is determined to break in, rescue her autistic brother and save the day.

Granted this is a Die Hard rip off, but it is quite a decent one with some strong action scenes and plenty of fun nastiness to keep everyone on the edge of their seats. Daisy Ridley proves she is a good action lead once more and a fine actress and top Bond director Martin Campbell does a good job here and still hammers home a decent eco point without preaching. Not great, but not bad.