Cleaner

Year of release : 2025

Run time : 1h37m

Genre : Action / Thriller

Cast : Daisy Ridley, Clive Owen

Joey is trying to make ends meet, while working as a window cleaner for an energy company. She has to take care of her autistic brother, who keeps on getting kicked out of the care homes he's in, for hacking into their computers.

She is already late for work, and has to take her brother with, unless she wants to get fired. She leaves her brother with the bodyguard, and goes to the top floor.

She has to clean the windows over time, and while doing so, a terr0rist group is taking over the annual gala, disguised as Cirque du Soleil dancers.

Still suspended in harnesses, Joey recognizes her colleague and friend, as one of the terr0rists. Not just that,it seems he is more radical than his leader, whom he k1lls, and takes over.

Joey is an ex soldier, and decides to alert the police, as her brother is still in the building.

 

The movie was entertaining, it didn't bore me. It reminded me of movies like Die Hard, but with a female lead. The beginning of the movie was funny, as Joey and her brother were trying to get to her work.

The actors were good. Daisy Ridley reminded me of Keira Knightley as her face has the same mimic, and she has the same smile. Clive Owen's role is a sort of a longer cameo appearance, as I think he appears for 10 minutes in the movie.

 

The soundtrack was good.

If it had visual effects I didn't notice them, although I kept on thinking she must have been filming against a green screen the whole time she was outside the windows.

The cool movie poster with Ridley shooting while falling off the building is not in the movie.

The movie is out in cinemas across the world, and is gonna be on the streaming platforms starting April 2025.

 

Rating : Worth a watch !