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The laughs fly like bullets in this action comedy about a man with amnesia who can't remember whether he's a super spy...or a janitor. Jake Rogers (Cedric the Entertainer) just woke up in a hotel room next to a dead CIA agent and a briefcase full of money. Things go from bad to worse when his blonde bombshell wife (Nicollette Sheridan) arrives to inform him that he's a Special Forces Operative entangled in a high-level Government conspiracy. But nothing seems to add up as Jake digs deeper into the case. Teaming up with another beauty from a past he can't remember (Lucy Liu), this custodian of comedy needs to get a clue before the bad guys take him out with the trash!
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Code Name: The Cleaner squeaks by in living up to the reputation of its star, Cedric the Entertainer. The movie does entertain, but just barely and pretty much only because of the skill we've come to expect from Cedric as an entertainer. In another actor's hands, this freewheeling spy spoof could easily have turned into a schizophrenic dud. The movie still has a little split-personality problem between its aspirations to be a tense, Bourne Identity-like thriller or out-and-out comic caper. Fortunately, the entertainer in him gives Cedric the credibility to juggle both genres with only a few dropped balls. When Cedric, as ordinary Joe (maybe) Jake Rodgers, wakes up in a hotel room with amnesia, a dead FBI agent, and a bag stuffed with cash, at least two people show unusual interest in a prized missing microchip, the money, and him -- in that order. Nicollette Sheridan is a bit too desperate in claiming to be his housewife as she whisks him "home" to their huge mansion. Showing the first shades of skepticism (and comic brilliance), the still-amnesiac Jake wonders, "I'm rich, I live in a big house and I'm married to a white woman. Am I Lionel Richie?" He also wonders if the gun-toting, butt-kicking Lucy Liu really is his mistress, as she claims to be. It all seems to good to be true. But the bad guys who just want the microchip don't care, and the genuine thriller mayhem and laugh riot gags that fly by don't give Jake much time to think that maybe he is just an ordinary janitor who has wrong-manned his way into a massive spy vs. spy cliche. There are a couple of fantastically funny supporting roles for additional distraction. DeRay Davis steals the spotlight as Jake's wannabe-rapper janitor pal, and Niecy Nash (of Reno 911! fame) also chomps hard on the scenery as a sex-crazed security guard. Food Network fans will get an unintended chuckle from seeing Mark Dacascos, the suave and sybaritic "Kitchen Stadium Chairman" from Iron Chef America playing head cheese of the bad guy contingent. In all, it's not worth the audience spending too much time thinking all this through either, especially when Cedric's doing his thing (the clog dance and grandma-spanking scenes are highlights). Maybe someday they'll let Cedric off the thinking leash altogether -- perhaps in Code Name: The Entertainer? --Ted Fry
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Code Name - The Cleaner
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All mention of it needs to be wiped from the human consciousness. There is not one redeeming quality to it. Cedric the less-than-entertaining is so comidically bad that you might think you'd like to see this train wreck just to witness his lack of talent. It would be better to deliberately mash your fingers in a drawer repeatedly while slamming your face into the desk top than to see this movie. This movie should be erased from existence. You'd be wrong.
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This is worth watching but might be better if you just rent it rather buying out right.keith The previews made it look like it would be a good movie, though it was a funny movie, it just wasnt quite what I thought it be. It is funny, but isnt a movie movie I'll watch a 100 times, I 'll be lucky if I even watch it once, with-in the next year.
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Likable cast. Intriguing plot. And a good girl-girl fight at the end. Think of it as light version of "The Bourne Identity". Funny, lively and sexy action - comedy - mystery - thriller. Yes, some jokes fall flat, but a good percentage of them work.
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Cedric- a man of many talents
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Cedric will always be the master of comedy, baby. - Cedric waking up and not sure where he was, or who he was sleeping with. - Cedric putting skittles in his butlers mouth. - Also, the butler neatly placing the skittles in a glass jar in an attempt to make them look fancy was a nice bonus touch. He ducked just in time. - Cedric uppercutting a man with a bucket during a fight scene.
The movie had plenty of other funny moments as well. Ouch. - One of Cedric's friends in a bathroom bending over and a janitor coming in and seeing something he shouldn't have seen, lol. The look on the guys face was priceless.
- A man sliding into a glass door, and the glass shattering. He turned over and it was a dead guy.
It's about a man who has memory problems. Here are some of the highlights:.
- When Cedric was playing golf, and the golf ball bounced back and nearly hit the butler in the mouth. - Cedric escaping from his fake wife and falling out the window of the big home.
I don't understand why so many people think the movie was unfunny. Cedric was awesome in this family movie.
- During a car ride scene, a bad man who was laying on the roof went flying into a bunch of parked cars when the driver suddenly put the brakes on.
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