Race baiting, jam selling, talent vacuum grifter Meghan Markle has been keen to remind us that she like to ‘elevate’ things so it’s a shame that she never took up a role as window cleaner where she could elevate herself up the side of a tower block to do some work for the first time in her life. Instead it’s Joey (Daisy Ridley), a window cleaner with a military background. Her day has already started off badly when the autistic brother she cares for has lost out on a place in a care facility and now she’s also running late for work where she has to leave him with security while she persuades her boss not to fire her.
It’s a bad start to the day which is about to get even worse when a gala being held in the executive tower black whose window’s she is cleaning is hijacked by a bunch of eco-terrorists led by Marcus (Clive Owen) and sidekick Noah (Taz Skylar). But it’s not the tuna unfriendly vol-au-vents that has them on the warpath and they’ve moved on from throwing cans of soup over paintings or acting as real road bollards. It’s not long before Noah takes over the group leader growing ever more unhinged and extreme in his ideology that sees employees even more quickly dispensed with than a Meghan Markle staff appraisal meeting. The group’s objective initially seems to be ritual humiliation of the employees and their bosses publicly fessing up to their environmental crimes. It’s Joey who watches all of this suspended high up the side of the building from her window cleaning that swings into action to save both the hostages and her brother.
Yes, it is all very Die Hard the film that remains the template for any high rise action movie that set the bar so high as to be impossible to top let alone equal. Luckily, helming all this is director Martin Campbell who gave us two of the best Bond films with Goldeneye and Casino Royale ( both Bond debut films for Brosnan and Craig) and he knows how to put an action set piece together. And the Hans Gruber of the film is Taz Skylar far more of an unstable hothead than Alan Rickman’s coolly calm villain compared to Skylar’s chaotic energy fuelled by overconfidence and arrogance. Unfortunately Clive Owen’s character isn’t around for long which is a pity as the two play off each other well and Owen’s never really landed a defining star making role that should have catapulted him into a far bigger star. Daisy Ridley returns to action after recent dramatic roles in the excellent ‘Magpie’ & far more sombre ,‘Sometimes I think about Dying’ and its where future roles possibly lie as she commits wholly to the action even if it is very obviously green screen driven. But Cleaner, though undoubtedly daft and often lacking logic, is a cheery enough no brainer.
related feature : ‘Magpie’ Daisy Ridley Q&A
related feature : Daisy Ridley & director Rachel Lambert discuss their new film, ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’
We chat to Taz Skylar about his villainous role in, ‘Cleaner’….
Here’s the Cleaner trailer…….
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