A Christmas party in the Hochhaus Nakatomi Plaza ended in a real bloodbath-and led to an extremely influential genre classic. “Stirb slowly” (1988) was characterized in addition to his high voltage, especially by the dry oneliners of his hero John McClane played by Bruce Willis, who, according to engagements, in the TV series “The Model and the Schniffler”, the leap in Hollywood's first division succeeded. Countless times, the “A man against a whole gang of terrorists” scheme has been copied countless times-whereby “alarm level: red” (on a ship), “Speed” (in a bus) and “Sudden Death” (in an ice hockey stadium) are among the best rip-offs.
“Cleaner” is now visibly trying to have a modern reinterpretation: not a Christmas party, but a PR event in the London high-rise building of an energy group is crashed by (eco-) terrorists-and the heroic figure of identification is not the randomly present policeman husband of an employee, but a window cleaner with a military brother in the Has towing. The latter is only one of many half-baked ingredients of the artisan action thriller of “Green Lantern” director Martin Campbell, in which “Star Wars” star Daisy Ridley, despite many (largely completed) stunts, hardly succeeds in closing the big and now dusty footsteps of Bruce Willis.
Must intervene unexpectedly when a London high-rise is besieged by eco-terrorists: window cleaner Joey (Daisy Ridley)
The day begins extremely stressful for Joey (Daisy Ridley): her autistic brother Michael (Matthew Tuck) flew from a care facility because of a hack. Since she cannot organize any other accommodation at short notice, his sister takes him to the high-rise building of the energy group Agnian Energy, in which a PR event for green stom generation is to take place. But the event is sensitively disturbed by eco-terrorists:
Party guests are stunned with gas and the leading heads of the company are supposed to admit their environmental sins in front of the camera. When the first victims are to be complained under the radical leader Noah (Taz Skyler), the militarily trained Joey is the last hope of the hostages. Just stupid that she stuck on your airy, meanwhile tilted work platform at half the 50-story glass facade …
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… which only changes in the 69th minute of film. After that, Martin Campbell turns out in a heating and technical room and in the final duel with several bloody and confidently staged fights- from this moment on, the action before his two bond adventures “Goldeneye” and “Casino Royale” does not have to hide! For this purpose, toughness and sometimes absurd power gang rules the action, in which show values remain in short supply. Clive Owen (“American Crime Story”) in an unusual role says goodbye to the film after 15 minutes of screen time, and what Noah actually has in the shield know very few in the activist college-which, despite all the perfidious planning of the action, seems rather unbelievable.
Daisy Ridley is just not enough to Bruce Willis Ran
Only police operations manager Hume (Ruth Gemmell) immediately has the right nose after a short research-and has to repeat the actionist director of a special operational command again and again. In addition to Johy, who really intervened late in the event, the policewoman associated with radio against toxic masculinity also fights for her authority. Actually, a refreshingly subversive feminist aspect in the action genre characterized by men's sweat and muscles -if he would not be reversed as quickly as it came up unexpectedly.
Even if Daisy Ridley is trying to draw a tough female counter-draft to John McClane, even if Daisy Ridley tries to draw a tough female McClane, she does not succeed in lack of nature. Smoking the model cool cigarettes before one villain was snapped out with dry sayings, the chaotic and literally humor-free Joey, who on the way to work, is getting into the wrong bus and plague with her brother fascinated by the “Avengers” films, always hectic and rushed. Sure, that's all too human – but that is not suitable for an iconic or credible action heroine.
Conclusion: “The Cleaner” let some inconsistencies and a lack of bite against the large model “Die Slow slowly”. It is only in the last film third of the action thrillers, which is a surprisingly compact action thriller, Bond director Martin Campbell and Daisy Ridley show that they can still deliver sovereign with action scenes.