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Name: Cleaner
Director: Renny Harlin
Genre: crime, mystery, thriller
Released: 2007
Duration: 1 h 28 min
Rating: 6.1

Cleaner has an iRankMovies score of 46.8/100, based on a weighted combination of IMDb (×3.0), Rotten Tomatoes (×2.0), Metacritic (×1.5), and TMDb (×1.0).

Cleaner (2007)

Solving a crime can be dirty work

Release:2007

Runtime:1h 28m

Country:United States

Director:Renny Harlin

Language:English

Genre

CrimeMysteryThriller

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Keywords

Cover Up

iRank47

Cleaner rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb6.1/10· 47K votes

Rotten Tomatoes17%

Metacritic49%

TMDb6.085/10· 925 votes

With 17% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.1/10 on IMDb and 49/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been modest.

About Cleaner

Single father and former cop Tom Cutler has an unusual occupation: he cleans up death scenes. But when he's called in to sterilize a wealthy suburban residence after a brutal shooting, Cutler is shocked to learn he may have unknowingly erased crucial evidence, entangling himself in a dirty criminal cover-up.

Cast of Cleaner

Samuel L. Jackson
as Tom Cutler
Ed Harris
as Eddie Lorenzo
Eva Mendes
as Ann Norcut
Luis Guzmán
as Det. Jim Vargas
Keke Palmer
as Rose Cutler
Maggie Lawson
as Cherie
Jose Pablo Cantillo
as Miguel
Robert Forster
as Arlo Grange
Terry Milam
as Victim's Neighbor
Marc Macaulay
as Vic
Edrick Browne
as Det. Darrin Harris
Ritchie Montgomery
as George Walton

Cleaner facts

Budget: $25M
Box office: $5.8M

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Audience opinions

What the audience liked

•Crime thriller mystery offers compelling procedural intrigue with cover up premise
•Director craftsmanship evident in building suspense within confined narrative scope
•Crime investigation narrative maintains pacing and tension throughout

What the audience disliked

•Critical consensus indicates mixed reception despite competent thriller execution
•Murder mystery resolution lacks originality or surprising narrative revelations