Clean

But this film was just insufferably boring crap. From the gritty aesthetic, the terrible music, the boring protagonist, and so many pretentious moments it elicits constant cringes and eye rolls, it fails on multiple levels to provide time worthy entertainment. I tire of formulaic action movies where everything is predictable, but it is mind numbing when movies seem self important yet still follow numerous tropes in a failed effort to be edgey. Awful.

The storyline is not new, but tried and true. It could've been a good movie, maybe even a great one. The actors do their jobs, and the cinematography is sufficiently bleak. The ingredients for a good redemption story are all there, so what happened? It's the small things that add up. The viewer is pulled out of the story with WFT moments. It's the number of these moments that spoil the film. Style over substance is never going to work, it's distracting. The constant exposition of why Clean feels dirty is excessive, we understand his motivation. You don't need to hit us over the head with a monkey wrench, we get it. It's a misfire, style over substance.

On every level, this is a dismal failure. Adam Brody is really a supporting actor but he insists on taking films where he's the star and a bunch of unknowns are in it with him. Bad move because the films all suck and they only serve to show he can't carry the show. Additionally, the movie is unbelieveably slow. With a soundtrack that is just dismal. Don't bother. You will be bored out of your mind.

NOT FOR EVERYONE. I LOVED IT BUT FOR YOU ITS YOUR CALL "Clean" doesn't aim high, it aims low, but it hits its target square-on, and its murky depictions of gut-churning violence don't wash away easily. Hard-edged, old-fashioned, and anchored by a sturdy movie star performance from Adrien Brody, Clean plays well as a socially-tinged vigilante thriller.

Behold, the tortured soul, "Clean," a common garbage man (get it?) forever haunted by the sudden unexpected OD by his toddler of color in the hood. As his violent past catches up with him, he unleashes the Travis Bickle inside, exacting revenge for (something) finally bringing deserving predictable justice to the local colonizer-gangster. I give it 2 woke thumbs up.

This was not worth the data it streamed in on. Seems to be on an endless loop for the first half and then it becomes a predictable mess in the second. I wish I didn't bother.

... To the recent cult hit NOBODY. Which itself was a riff on the idea that sometimes it pays to look twice at people we take for granted and assume are harmless. The major difference between the two films is that NOBODY really wanted to be a crowd-pleaser and pretty much succeeded, even if the story got nuttier at every turn. CLEAN on the other hand seems to want to please nobody (bad pun!) but itself, showcasing brilliant direction and editing for the sole purpose of building to a climax so late in arriving that, even when the film finally explodes, the audience is out of patience and feeling betrayed. ((Designated "IMDb Top Reviewer." Please check out my list "167+ Nearly-Perfect Movies (with the occasional Anime or TV miniseries) you can/should see again and again (1932 to the present))

Ending is predictable, but had some great action moments. Same old Taken type story but who can get enough of this genera. Could watch anything with Brody.