This yr has been a satisfying one for motion film followers thus far, with the likes of Jason Statham’s A Working Man, Tom Hardy’s Havoc, From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, Novocaine, The Accountant 2, Amazon’s G20, and extra proving that there’s nonetheless quite a lot of life left in no-nonsense thrills. Now, one such instance from 2025 is now streaming, and has shortly cleaned up because it lands the #1 on the favored platform’s High 10.
Led by Star Wars actor Daisy Ridley and directed by former James Bond filmmaker Martin Campbell, the motion thriller outing finds Ridley as a dishonorably discharged, extremely skilled ex-soldier who, whereas working because the titular cleaner, finds herself in a Die Exhausting-esque state of affairs after the constructing she works in is taken over by terrorists.
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The film is aptly titled Cleaner, and stars the likes of Taz Skylar, Ruth Gemmell, Ray Fearon, and Clive Owen alongside Ridley. Cleaner is now streaming on HBO Max the place it has topped the U.S. charts and brought over the likes of Robert De Niro’s crime biopic The Alto Knights, The Starvation Video games, Mickey 17, and the drama Mountainhead. You possibly can try the official synopsis for the motion outing under.
“Set in present-day London, a bunch of radical activists take over an vitality firm’s annual gala, seizing 300 hostages to be able to expose the corruption of the hosts. Their simply trigger is hijacked by an extremist inside their ranks, who is able to homicide everybody within the constructing to ship his anarchic message to the world. It falls to an ex-soldier turned window cleaner, performed by Ridley, suspended 50 tales up on the surface of the constructing, to avoid wasting these trapped inside, together with her youthful brother.”
Daisy Ridley Leaps Again Into Motion With Aplomb
Like oh so many misunderstood no-nonsense motion thrillers earlier than it, Cleaner was met with a divisive response upon launch and presently holds scores of 53% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes alongside 66% from audiences on the Popcornmeter. However reward was heaped on each Daisy Ridley for her affinity for leaping into motion and director Martin Campbell, who so efficiently rebooted the James Bond franchise twice with Pierce Brosnan’s GoldenEye and Daniel Craig’s On line casino Royale (maybe he might make it a hat-trick with Amazon?), for his skill to ship the motion motion pictures items.
Whereas MovieWeb’s personal Julian Roman discovered fault with Cleaner, he did take pleasure in watching Ridley sweep up baddies in motion hero mode earlier than praising Campbell as “an motion grasp.”
“The at all times likable Ridley is a confirmed commodity in bodily demanding roles. She’s the movie’s finest attribute. Joey is tender and caring in direction of Michael, however robust as nails when the state of affairs calls for lethal violence. Ridley ups her motion sport by doling out depraved punishment whereas dropping F-bombs. The struggle scenes are purposely intimate with no overblown set items. Joey is not mowing down baddies en masse. She takes them out individually by any means vital. Director Martin Campbell (GoldenEye, On line casino Royale, Inexperienced Lantern) is an motion grasp and hasn’t misplaced his contact regardless of the movie’s apparent issues.”
Cleaner
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- Launch Date
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February 21, 2025
- Runtime
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97 minutes
- Director
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Martin Campbell