Cleaner

Starring Samual L Jackson and directed by Renny Harlin. Not the best of starts for any film Discuss this article

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How John Travolta must hate Samuel L Jackson. While Travolta’s career continues to rise and fall like rickety old rollercoaster, Jackson is apparently impervious to flops. Even starring in supersized critical bombs like Snakes On A Plane didn’t stop him from signing a nine-picture deal with Marvel Films that includes Iron Man II and Captain America. Certainly Cleaner, a noirish crime flick co-starring Eva Mendes and Ed Norton that sank without trace upon release in 2007, didn’t do him any harm despite almost unanimously negative reviews.

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