Code Name: The Cleaner

A man who has lost his memory has a new and dangerous life thrust upon him in this comedy thriller. Jake (Cedric the Entertainer) is a janitor who finds himself stricken with a crippling case of amnesia. While Jake struggles to regain his memory and identity, he becomes convinced that he's an ...more

Few films deserve to be released on the first Friday of the year more than Code Name: The Cleaner, and indeed, that very thing happened on January 5, 2007. This vehicle for comedian Cedric the Entertainer is not egregiously bad in any one area, but it does display an overall limpness that made it ripe for dumping in the January wastelands. The film's most obvious problem is tonal. Code Name: The Cleaner has the feeling of beginning in the middle of a sentence, as Cedric's portly amnesiac wakes ...more