Code Name: The Cleaner
- warm
- kinetic
Warm, breathless, gentle action / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Cedric the Entertainer plays Jake, a seemingly regular guy who has no idea who he is after being hit over the head by mysterious assailants. When he finds himself entangled in a government conspiracy, Jake and his pursuers become convinced that he is an undercover agent.
Our read · Code Name: The Cleaner (2007) reads as a warm, breathless, grounded action · comedy · crime entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Code Name
What watching it is actually like.
“You want amnesia spy-goof energy with Cedric the Entertainer and video-game twists.”
Skip it tonight — Sloppy action-comedy plotting will feel like a nap, not a caper tonight.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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