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Code Name: The Cleaner
Cedric the Entertainer stars as a janitor with amnesia who becomes convinced that he is an undercover agent.
Genre:
Comedy
MPAA Rating:
Starring:
Cedric the Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, Mark Dacascos, Will Patton, Callum Keith Rennie
Director:
Les Mayfield
Running Time:
1:34
Release:
Opened Nov 26, 2009
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In this by-the-numbers action comedy, Cedric the Entertainer plays a humble janitor who awakes one day in a strange hotel room with a dead guy at his side; he's lost his memory and spends the rest of the movie trying to figure out why he's apparently involved with two women (Nicollette Sheridan and Lucy Liu), why he keeps having flashbacks of being an elite spy and why the FBI is after him.
Aside from Cedric's admittedly appealing persona -- he's always watchable, even in dreck like this -- there's absolutely nothing to recommend "The Cleaner," not the putative comedy (watch Cedric dance lasciviously with a lingerie-clad Sheridan) nor the action, which kicks in only at the end and seems to be composed of martial arts stunts Jackie Chan deemed too cheesy. Advice: Skip "The Cleaner" and watch "The Original Kings of Comedy" instead.
--Ann Hornaday (Jan. 5, 2007)
Contains sexual content, crude humor and some violence.
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