Intelligent Crime Shows are the popular kids in the cafeteria lately. Your just not cool if you are not into them. So its no wonder that Hollywood wants to put them out on the big screen. This one seems to stand a head above the others and has me really interested.
The Cleaner, a thriller scripted by Matthew Aldrich. The Cleaner, Jackson, playing an ataxaphobic neat-freak who cleans up crime scenes for a living, must overcome his compulsive fear of untidiness in order to solve a murder that he helped cover up while doing his job. As he investigates the crime, he eventually uncovers secrets of his past that threaten to change his life forever.
I love these sort of movies. In every crime movie you see the cops struggling to find the killer, catch the badguy and show just how clever and resourceful they are when they figure it all out. Thats all great, but its very cool to see them do something like this where he is not just fighting against odds to catch the badguy, he is fighting against himself.
Indiana Jones had to deal with snakes to get the prize. He faced his fear. But he had a gun and a whip. Jackson is just a highly trained janitor who works for the cast of CSI. Looks like he “cleaned” some evidence and now has to deal with his compulsion to solve the case himself.
Im calling my mom. She said there is no such thing as “too clean”. Im gonna tell her shes wrong!
