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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Brand: Warner Brothers EAN: 0794043107320 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC Item Dimensions: Label: New Line Home Video Languages: Manufacturer: New Line Home Video MPN: TRNDN10732D Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: New Line Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: April 24, 2007 Running Time: 91 minutes Studio: New Line Home Video Theatrical Release Date: January 05, 2007 Editorial Review: Product Description: A man with amnesia cant remember whether hes a super spy .. Or a janitor. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 09/30/2008 Starring: Cedric The Entertainer Nicollette Sheridan Rating: Pg13 Amazon.com: Code Name: The Cleaner squeaks by in living up to the reputation of its star, Cedric the Entertainer. The movie does entertain, but just barely and pretty much only because of the skill we've come to expect from Cedric as an entertainer. In another actor's hands, this freewheeling spy spoof could easily have turned into a schizophrenic dud. The movie still has a little split-personality problem between its aspirations to be a tense, Bourne Identity-like thriller or out-and-out comic caper. Fortunately, the entertainer in him gives Cedric the credibility to juggle both genres with only a few dropped balls. When Cedric, as ordinary Joe (maybe) Jake Rodgers, wakes up in a hotel room with amnesia, a dead FBI agent, and a bag stuffed with cash, at least two people show unusual interest in a prized missing microchip, the money, and him -- in that order. Nicollette Sheridan is a bit too desperate in claiming to be his housewife as she whisks him "home" to their huge mansion. Showing the first shades of skepticism (and comic brilliance), the still-amnesiac Jake wonders, "I'm rich, I live in a big house and I'm married to a white woman. Am I Lionel Richie?" He also wonders if the gun-toting, butt-kicking Lucy Liu really is his mistress, as she claims to be. It all seems to good to be true. But the bad guys who just want the microchip don't care, and the genuine thriller mayhem and laugh riot gags that fly by don't give Jake much time to think that maybe he is just an ordinary janitor who has wrong-manned his way into a massive spy vs. spy cliche. There are a couple of fantastically funny supporting roles for additional distraction. DeRay Davis steals the spotlight as Jake's wannabe-rapper janitor pal, and Niecy Nash (of Reno 911! fame) also chomps hard on the scenery as a sex-crazed security guard. Food Network fans will get an unintended chuckle from seeing Mark Dacascos, the suave and sybaritic "Kitchen Stadium Chairman" from Iron Chef America playing head cheese of the bad guy contingent. In all, it's not worth the audience spending too much time thinking all this through either, especially when Cedric's doing his thing (the clog dance and grandma-spanking scenes are highlights). Maybe someday they'll let Cedric off the thinking leash altogether -- perhaps in Code Name: The Entertainer? --Ted Fry Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Great Movie!I enjoyed the DVD The Cleaner. It was a funny movie and Cedric and Lucy were too funny. Rating:  - Horrendously terribleThis movie should be erased from existence. All mention of it needs to be wiped from the human consciousness. There is not one redeeming quality to it. Cedric the less-than-entertaining is so comidically bad that you might think you'd like to see this train wreck just to witness his lack of talent. You'd be wrong. It would be better to deliberately mash your fingers in a drawer repeatedly while slamming your face into the desk top than to see this movie. Rating: - The undercover janitor makes goodNot quite funny enough to be a riot, but the amnesia from head trauma can't convince him that he wears a red thong as underwear. He would like the superfreak blond security chief... Then there is the undercover waitress / FBI agent who has been his sometime girl friend? The fat fellow in the end brains the bad FBI agent with a bucket. It isn't quite funny enough for some reason: Vin Diesel has changed our perception of what an 'agent' might ... Read More Rating: - UnderratedFunny, lively and sexy action - comedy - mystery - thriller. Likable cast. Intriguing plot. And a good girl-girl fight at the end. Yes, some jokes fall flat, but a good percentage of them work. Think of it as light version of "The Bourne Identity". Rating: - pretty funnyThe previews made it look like it would be a good movie, though it was a funny movie, it just wasnt quite what I thought it be. It is funny, but isnt a movie movie I'll watch a 100 times, I 'll be lucky if I even watch it once, with-in the next year. This is worth watching but might be better if you just rent it rather buying out right........keith |
