# Cleaner (2025 film)

Cleaner is a 2025 British action thriller film directed by Martin Campbell, written by Simon Uttley, Paul Andrew Williams, and Matthew Orton, and starring Daisy Ridley, Taz Skylar and Clive Owen.
The film was first released in theatres in the United States on 21 February 2025, and is set to be released in the United Kingdom on Sky Cinema in April 2025.

## Synopsis

When activists take over an energy company's annual gala held at One Canada Square, Canary Wharf in London, some more radical members of their group take hostages and threaten to blow up the building if police intervene. A dishonorably discharged but highly trained ex-soldier, who works as the building's window cleaner, attempts to save the hostages when she learns one of them is her older brother.

## Cast

* Daisy Ridley as Joey Locke
** Poppy Townsend White as young Joey
* Clive Owen as Marcus
* Taz Skylar as Noah
* Matthew Tuck as Michael Locke, Joey's older brother
* Flavia Watson as Zee
* Ruth Gemmell as Claire
* Ray Fearon as Kahn
* Rufus Jones as Geoffrey Milton
* Richard Hope as Alistair Lawson
* Lee Boardman as Gerald Milton

## Production

The film is directed by Martin Campbell and is being produced by Anton, with Sebastien Raybaud and Callum Grant as producers.

### Casting

In May 2023, Daisy Ridley was confirmed in the lead role. Later that month, Clive Owen joined the cast. In October 2023, Taz Skylar joined the cast.

### Filming

Principal photography was reported by Screen Daily to have started in London in September 2023. First look images from Ridley filming in London appeared in the media in October 2023.

## Release

Sky Original Film acquired the rights to the film with plans for an early 2025 release on Sky Cinema. The film was released in the United States on 21 February 2025, by Quiver Distribution.

## Reception

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 51% of 69 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 5.6/10. The website's consensus reads: "Daisy Ridley's credible action chops and Martin Campbell's smooth direction keep Cleaner from being a mess, but this thriller borrows one too many elements from better predecessors to have a polished identity of its own." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 52 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "mixed or average" reviews.
Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter gave the film a positive feedback and wrote, "Director Campbell clearly knows his way around this sort of material, resulting in some tense, well-staged action sequences that make Cleaner reasonably diverting for its concise running time."
Robert Kojder of Flickering Myth rated the film a rating of 3/5 and said, "This film deserves to find an audience; 10 or 15 years ago, it would entertain at multiplexes and likely do solid box office numbers. The whole Hollywood system needs cleaning."
Giving a 3/4 rating, Mick LaSalle of San Francisco Chronicle wrote, "Cleaner is a good-not-great thriller in the Die Hard mold that gets an extra lift from Campbell's skillful direction and from Ridley, who is slowly but surely showing herself to be a performer of wide range and appeal."