Cleaner (2007) – Samuel L Jackson

Cleaner (2007) is a simple story with an interesting angle. It shows Samuel L Jackson in his element as Tom Cutler, a retired policeman now working for himself as a dead body residue cleaner, often contracted by the local police department to clean up crime scenes.

This movie has a decent supporting cast, including Ed Harris & Luis Guzmán as detectives and former colleagues of Tom’s, plus Eva Mendes as the lead female and wife of the missing man.

I’m not normally a fan of this slow & gritty pace of movie – it’s like a random episode from a TV crime drama series – but Samuel makes it work. Still, it’s so basic, I can’t rate it any higher than just Watchable. I’m certainly not expecting to watch it again so long as I remember much about it, and there’s not much to be remembered except a few nice plot twists.