Nikhat Kazmi The Times of India Feb 28, 2020

Makes you wish you had partial amnesia too.

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Joshua Starnes ComingSoon.net Mar 18, 2011 4/10

Code Name: The Cleaner isn't the worse comedy ever made; it probably won't even be the worst of 2007. For the most part it's simply boring, with fleeting patches of ineptness.

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Tom Meek Boston Phoenix Apr 23, 2009

The Entertainer conjures up some charm, and DeRay Davis provides pyrotechnics as a janitor/wanna-be rapper, but like the teddy-clad bubble-bath square-off between Liu and Sheridan, it's just not enough.

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Brian Marder Hollywood.com Nov 20, 2008 1/5

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Matthew Turner ViewLondon Dec 27, 2007 1/5

Depressingly laugh-free comedy that's so irredeemably awful that you'll wonder why Martin Lawrence isn't in it.

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David Gritten Independent (UK) Dec 7, 2007

The one laugh is in the production notes, where director Les Mayfield claims this is a comic take on the Jason Bourne movies. As if.

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Phelim O'Neill Guardian Dec 7, 2007 1/5

If you like comedies but hate going to the trouble of actually laughing, then this might just be the movie you've been waiting for.

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Catherine Chambers BBC.com Dec 7, 2007 1/5

The sooner Code Name... gets flushed out of cinemas, the better.

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Ken McIntyre Total Film Dec 7, 2007 2/5

where the number-one superguy used to solve crazy mix-ups like this in 15 minutes, The Cleaner takes a laboured, exposition-larded hour and a half.

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David Jenkins Time Out Dec 7, 2007 1/6

Do anything: rob a petrol station, superglue your eyelids together, chew on broken glass, just avoid at all costs.

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Rob Daniel Sky Cinema Dec 7, 2007 2/5

Code Name: The Cleaner is one of the year's big stinkers.

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Ross Bennett Empire Magazine Dec 7, 2007 1/5

A prime candidate for Worst Movie Of 2007.

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Anton Bitel Film4 Dec 7, 2007 1.5/5

too clumsy to be the sophisticated parody of memory-loss films it might have been, too bland for its action sequences to kick any ass, too dumbed-down to make much out of the clashes of race, class and gender at the heart of its fish-out-of-water comedy

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Scott Collura IGN Jun 25, 2007 1.5/5

If Cedric the Entertainer's constant mugging for the camera is not your cup of tea, and a derivative plot, relatively humorless script, and mundane directing aren't up your alley, then best to clean Code Name: The Cleaner off your must-see list right now.

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John J. Puccio Movie Metropolis Apr 24, 2007 4/10

...a rather silly and humorless affair that pretty much wastes Cedric's comic talents.

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Brian Tallerico UGO Mar 24, 2007

The kind of comedy that you'll forget mere moments after seeing.

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J. R. Jones Chicago Reader Mar 7, 2007

There's some pretty good improvised shtick from DeRay Davis as a wacky janitor. But these are small pleasures in a movie that never really generates any serious laughs.

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Frank Lovece Film Journal International Mar 1, 2007

Beyond such amateurishly ill-constructed plot points, what should be a fast-moving film is slow and repetitious.

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Cynthia Fuchs PopMatters Feb 24, 2007

From its weak premise to its boring action to its unpleasant jokes, this movie fulfills the worst expectations of January releases: it's awful.

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Stephen Garrett Time Out Feb 3, 2007 1/6

Ponderous wisecracks and cloak-and-dagger high jinks pass for comic intrigue in this hapless mix of yuks and kicks.

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