kosmasp It's the obvious joke, but I couldn't resist. If you call yourself the cleaner, you shouldn't be surprised that people will use that against you. With or without a lawyer or a police man for that matter. (no pun intended with the latter) But can someone be really mad at a comedy? Well let's just say, it would be nice if the movie could have the same moniker Cedric (the protagonist) has ...The majority seems to feel the same way. And it has nothing to do with the cast (who all seem to be underwhelmed and underused), but with the fact, that the script just might not have been that good to begin with. Then again, maybe the director or the studio turned a good script into a mess ... I couldn't tell you and I didn't bother looking into any of that .. because once I watched this movie, that was it! I did want it to be over ... and with this review of mine, now it is (for me).

gregor-scavnicar I was working all day and I thought that nothing would be better, than a nice comedy to cheer me up. But unfortunately I was wrong. The movie started fine, not awful, not great. After about 20-25min of the movie I realized that the movie wont be on my top list. More precisely it was going to be one of the worst movies. First of all movies about spies, especially comedy related ones, are all washed up. Secondly in this certain movie you can see ahead, everything is so obvious that even an eleven year old kid would be bored. The dialogs are very poor, all the "funny" things were already used in other movies. I was really very surprised about the quality of it, as there are at least three good actors in it. Personally I think that Cedric the Entertainer and Lucy Liu are better actors than it is seen in this movie. I advise you, if you don't have anything else to watch, pick up a book or listen to music. The time will be better spent.

MLDinTN I was expecting this movie to be horrible, but it wasn't quite that bad. It actually had a few funny and amusing moments. When Jake runs into Diane, played by the hot Nicole Sheridan, and she says she is his wife, his reaction is pretty funny. " I have a hot white wife." And then takes him to his supposed home, and its a huge mansion. He keeps having flashbacks of combat/fighting and has convinced himself he's a secret agent. But we learn he is just an avid video game player. That part was amusing.The plot is silly but it definitely is not one of the worst movies of the year. 14 year olds will probable like it.FINAL VERDICT: This is nothing to go out of your way to see. But if you catch it on TV and want 90 minutes of mindless entertainment you may want to check it out.

westfalj With perhaps any other contemporary actor in the lead role -- Jake Rodgers, aka, The Cleaner (Cedric the Entertainer) -- this film would have been a total bust. As some of the other folks commenting on here have already mentioned, the storyline is both contrived and in many ways superconventionally executed -- so much so that it risks becoming one long cliché. If you're looking for stimulating American cinema, or even a good action movie or espionage thriller, you should see something else.What saves CODE NAME: THE CLEANER for me, I think, is the utter preposterousness of casting Cedric the Entertainer as an amnesiac slowly convincing himself (and, supposedly, the viewer) that he is actually a secret agent working for the American government. I love Lucy Liu, but this is not her (best) film -- she plays more or less the same character she has played elsewhere (including the borderline racist trope that, since she is of Asian descent, she must be a masterful practitioner of at least one martial art) -- although her performance is true, and is enhanced comically by her playing opposite Cedric. None of the rest of the characters or actors -- including Nicollette Sheridan -- does much for the film, and the writing and direction are mediocre at best. But Cedric the Entertainer trying to convince us he's a superspy? That's worth the rental.