Daisy Ridley and Martin Campbell Team Up for Cleaner, But Only One Brings Enough Action
As disappointing as it is that studios no longer have much interest in releasing good romantic comedies, there’s admittedly something satisfying about the fact that an actress like Daisy Ridley has never really had to make one. Ridley, who shot to fame as Rey in the Star Wars sequel trilogy, has exactly the winsome beauty, youthful pluckiness, and English accent that should, at minimum, have forced her into an arranged marriage to a Jane Austen adaptation, or a more modern rom-com where she, say, has a meet-cute with Tom Holland that doesn’t involve a woman-free dystopia where people can hear each other’s thoughts.
Instead, Ridley seems to take cues from both the scrappiness of her Star Wars character and the nerdiness of her Star Wars fans, appearing in thrillers like the aforementioned Chaos Walking, dramas of self-reliance like The Young Woman and the Sea and Sometimes I Think About Dying, and now Cleaner, a Die Hard knockoff – a true-blue knockoff, too, not one of those variations with a cowardly change in venue designed to distinguish itself. No, this Die Hard knockoff literally just takes place in a skyscraper, just like the original Die Hard; even its nominal gimmick, that some of it might take place on the outside of the building rather than the interior, doesn’t last the entire film.
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