Code Name: The Cleaner

Name: Code Name: The Cleaner
Released: 2007-1-5
Cast: Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, Mark Dacascos, Will Patton

PG-13
1h 24m
2007

age 14+

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Cedric the Entertainer brings the funny as Jake Rodgers, a janitor in a dirty world who becomes our only hope! Oh, sure, he might have no memory after being assaulted by a group of mysterious villains, but nothing can stop the spirit of this Regular Joe. Entangled in a government conspiracy and a love triangle between a CIA agent (Lucy Liu) and a femme-fatale (Nicollette Sheridan), Jake's only hope of survival is to become one thing -- Code Name: The Cleaner!

Director:

Les Mayfield

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Cast:

Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, Mark Dacascos, Will Patton, Callum Keith Rennie

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

Critics Consensus: Code Name: The Cleaner is a limp action/comedy flick that alternates between lame, worn-out jokes and cheesy martial arts.

Reviews

ComingSoon.net

Joshua Starnes

Code Name: The Cleaner isn't the worse comedy ever made; it probably won't even be the worst of 20...

The Entertainer conjures up some charm, and DeRay Davis provides pyrotechnics as a janitor/wanna-b...

Depressingly laugh-free comedy that's so irredeemably awful that you'll wonder why Martin Lawrence...

The one laugh is in the production notes, where director Les Mayfield claims this is a comic take...

June 21, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 14+

Common Sense Says

Amnesia action-comedy might hurt your brain, too.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that this dreadful spy comedy pushes the PG-13 edge with regard to sexual imagery and humor. Main character Jake makes lots of crude jokes about his "prowess," and women constantly appear in various states of undress and/or otherwise show off their assets (Nicollette Sheridan essentially reprises her vavoomy Desperate Housewives role, but it's not funny here). The movie's action-comedy-style violence is broad and brutal (though mostly bloodless), including shooting, car crashes, grenades exploding, and martial arts fighting. Language is obnoxious, with slang and obscenities used througout, including repeated uses of "s--t," "damn," and "hell."