Spoiler Warning: There are some major spoilers for Cleaner below. If you’ve yet to watch the action thriller, please come back after checking it out.
I don’t know how it happened, but I completely missed Cleaner when it first dropped on the 2025 movie schedule. Being a fan of new action movies and all, and considering director Martin Campbell gave the world two of my favorite James Bond movies (Goldeneye and Casino Royale), you would think I would have jumped at the first opportunity. But I didn’t catch the Daisy Ridley movie about a group of eco-terrorists taking over a London skyscraper until it became available with a HBO Max subscription.
villain steals the show, but instead he’s taken out by one of his own just when we’re getting to know him.
Clive Owen’s best movies, but I also can’t act like the twist wasn’t pretty cool either. The movie, which had some heart-stopping action sequences, most of which involved Daisy Ridley’s badass female hero, felt a little formulaic at times and had some pacing issues despite its hour-and-a-half runtime. However, it was the fun and genuinely shocking twist that pushed it up a few notches. After that, I thought anything could happen.
All in all, Cleaner is a middle-of-the-road movie, but that twist is just too good to pass up.