Code Name: The Cleaner was released in 2007 and bombed at the box office only making around eight million domestically. The plot is about a guy who wakes up next to a dead FBI agent and has amnesia. He doesn’t know if he is a janitor or a secret agent. The film stars Cedric The Entertainer, Lucy Liu, Nicollette Sheridan, Mark Dacascos, Callum Keith Rennie, DeRay Davis, Niecy Nash, and Will Patton.

I thought Code Name: The Cleaner was a fun stupid movie. Sometimes you just want to watch a stupid movie. It was surprisingly fun and had some funny moments. It was a nice length. It clocks in around an hour and a half. It was straightforward and pretty fast paced. The cast does a good job. Nicollette Sheridan had a fairly substantial role in this. This was released while she was still on Desperate Housewives. Lucy Liu had done similar projects before with the most obvious being the Charlie’s Angels movies. In fact, the movie was similar to the Charlie’s Angels movies, specifically the ones with Lucy Liu. Cedric the Entertainer played his role well and had his usual brand of humor.

I do understand why the movie bombed. It was released in January and as I recall, there was not much promotion for the movie upon its release. If it had better marketing maybe it would have done slightly better. However, I feel it would have probably bombed regardless of how big of a marketing campaign it had gotten.

Code Name: The Cleaner is a fun dumb movie and sometimes that is all anyone can ask for. It does not make the audience think and it provides a nice way to give the brain a break for an hour and a half.