If you're looking for a quick Die Hard clone to spend time on, you could do both better and far worse than this one. My ★★★ review of Cleaner (2025) on @letterboxd: https://boxd.it/9caGkH #Cleaner #DaisyRidley #Letterboxd
boxd.itA ★★★ review of Cleaner (2025)Cleaner isn’t subtle about being a “Die Hard on a” movie. Martin Freeman’s latest limited release action thriller contains all the elements – an everyman character with an action-capable backstory, a hostage situation with the rich and powerful, a group of terrorists, phone calls with the police ally, a zippy hacker, and action sequences as our everyman fights the villains. Hell, it even takes place in a high-rise tower. But what Freeman and the trio of screenwriters (Simon Uttley, Paul Andrew Williams, and Matthew Orton) understand is that if you’re gonna do one of these Die Hard clones, you have
