Code Name: The Cleaner (2007)

You won't be disappointed!

Truly Dreadful Film

So much average

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

This movie is nothing more than a collection of poorly executed, denigrating tropes. It's racist AF and a total sausage fest. I've seen some people describe it as light and entertaining, but I can't imagine watching it and not being insulted. If you're not Black, Asian or a woman, you should at least be insulted to be handed such an uninspired pile of garbage.It's possible to engage damaging tropes with comedy in a way that disarms them, but this film exploits them instead, which is just lazy.

While this by far the best comedy I've seen, it had it's moments.But that's not to say that it was bad.The worst part was in the mansion...the butler role was absolutely dreadful and unneeded.In fact the entire scene with the butler should have been cut and something else added in.Clearly the lead role was not written for Cedric...he seemed lost in it in many areas and just didn't fit quite right.Ronnie, however was a riot as the rapping custodian. His bathroom scene was just hilarious and possibly the best in the entire movie.**A little known fact is that Jake's house - the blue one was filed in a well known drug house in Vancouver, BC and had to be searched by police with dogs before filming began in the house.

This film is not very good. Cederic the Entertainer can be quite funny as a stand up comic, and he was hilarious in both "Barbershop" films, but here he is not funny, nor is the rest of the cast. This is a poor attempt to make a spy comedy, and spy comedies are usually not that good to begin with.The only spy comedies that I have found to be hilarious were the 1983 film "Bullshot" and Leslie Nielson in 1996's "Spy Hard" The old amnesia attempt is used here to string together 90 mins of absolutely no laughs.2 out of 10

Watching this movie, I kept thinking they couldn't afford to have a real script written, and must have run out of money when they were about 2/3 of the way through, and couldn't finish editing it. Not to mention, they probably couldn't afford Martin Lawrence for the lead role, so they filled it with Cedric the Entertainer, who does better in supporting roles. Cedric does have several funny scenes, though.The plot is completely unintelligible, and undeveloped, but based on the genre you can predict most of the action. It's the ever-popular "hero has something secret the bad guys want, so they can sell it to terrorists for a fortune, but it's missing." Not to mention, the scenes or "shticks" that have been better done elsewhere. For example, every time Cedric tried to be funny with judo moves, I kept thinking that he ripped that off from Martin, who does it much better. There is a brief cat-fight scene that is far inferior to the one in Undercover Brother (which is an excellent movie, and much funnier overall).