{"id":332159,"date":"2021-08-30T03:49:09","date_gmt":"2021-08-30T00:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-clean-review-a-grim-john-wick-knock-off\/"},"modified":"2021-08-30T03:49:09","modified_gmt":"2021-08-30T00:49:09","slug":"watch-clean-review-a-grim-john-wick-knock-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-clean-review-a-grim-john-wick-knock-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Clean&#8217; Review: A Grim &#8216;John Wick&#8217; Knock-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28a84a857ba\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a28a84a857ba\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-clean-review-a-grim-john-wick-knock-off\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Clean_Review_A_Grim_%E2%80%98John_Wick_Knock-Off%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Clean&#8217; Review: A Grim &#8216;John Wick&#8217; Knock-Off&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-clean-review-a-grim-john-wick-knock-off\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Clean_Review_A_Grim_%E2%80%98John_Wick_Knock-Off%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Clean&#8217; Review: A Grim &#8216;John Wick&#8217; Knock-Off&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-clean-review-a-grim-john-wick-knock-off\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-clean-review-a-grim-john-wick-knock-off\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Clean_Review_A_Grim_%E2%80%98John_Wick_Knock-Off%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Clean&#8217; Review: A Grim &#8216;John Wick&#8217; Knock-Off&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Clean_Review_A_Grim_%E2%80%98John_Wick_Knock-Off%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Clean&#8217; Review: A Grim &#8216;John Wick&#8217; Knock-Off&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        If a story about a reformed killer returning to his murderous ways to hunt down and slaughter Russian mobsters sounds familiar, that\u2019s because it\u2019s the synopsis for \u201cJohn Wick.\u201d It\u2019s also, however, the premise of \u201cClean,\u201d director Paul Solet\u2019s thriller \u2014 co-written by leading man Adrien Brody \u2014 about a hit man getting back in homicidal business. Obvious and derivative in borderline-shameless fashion, it\u2019s a B-movie knock-off with little originality and even less flair. That\u2019ll make it a tough sell following its Tribeca Film Festival premiere (delayed from last year), although genre fans hungry for hackneyed action with a healthy dose of \u201cTaxi Driver\u201d-ish brooding may welcome its by-the-numbers mayhem.<\/p>\n<p>In a dark, wintery New York City, Clean (Brody) performs his garbageman duties in the early morning, musing in interior monologues about the \u201csea of filth. An endless onslaught of ugliness \u2026 Where does it all go? I\u2019ve got blood on my hands. I\u2019m stained. I\u2019m dirty. No matter how hard I try, I can\u2019t wash away the past.\u201d That effectively spells out the protagonist\u2019s Travis Bickle-grade state of mind, as well as his secret, lethal past. Solet and Brody\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a> wastes no time also likening him to a beaten dog (at which point he feeds a stray) and conveying, via flashbacks, his guilt-stricken grief over the death of his young Black daughter, which is why he now spends his mornings bringing food to in-need Black teen Dianda (Chandler DuPont).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClean\u201d eventually throws some Christian religious elements and a giant Clean back tattoo into its mix \u2014 not to mention a climactic explosion of avenging-angel carnage that\u2019s prefaced by Clean admitting he\u2019s \u201cback\u201d \u2014 thereby completing its transformation into an unabashed riff on Keanu Reeves\u2019 2014 hit. Clean\u2019s adversaries are first a group of Black men who want to corrupt Dianda, which motivates Clean to take his trusty wrench to their noggins. In the process, however, he winds up smashing in the face of Mikey (Richie Merritt), the recently paroled son of Russian drug kingpin Michael (Glenn Fleshler), who operates out of a fish market and who\u2019s frustrated with his son for hanging out with Black hoods and listening to rap music. Between that thread and Clean\u2019s own paternalism toward Dianda, it\u2019s difficult to miss the white savior (and anti-Black men) narrative at play here.<\/p>\n<p>Set to Brody\u2019s hip-hop-infused score, \u201cClean\u201d trudges slowly and gloomily toward each of its plot points, its trajectory so predictable that it\u2019s hard to care about any of its particulars. Those also include Clean\u2019s habit of selflessly renovating his community\u2019s ramshackle homes, and his amiable friendship with a pawn shop owner (RZA) who buys his refurbished goods for cash. There\u2019s no doubt that Clean will eventually go on a rampage or two, but the film draws out those payoffs to the point of aggravation. When they do arrive, they\u2019re orchestrated with humorless severity, and what they lack in inventive combat choreography, they make up for in ruggedness, thereby adding to the material\u2019s dour tone.<\/p>\n<p>Reteaming with Solet following 2017\u2019s \u201cBullet Head,\u201d Brody grimaces with requisite anguish and rage, and like Solet\u2019s clean and moody direction, he handles his violent responsibilities with aplomb. Yet there\u2019s not much to be done with a leaden screenplay that has Clean say things like, \u201cI\u2019m just trying to save myself.\u201d Fleshler is similarly stuck going through rote motions as a hulking menace with scary smiles and punishing fists. Redemption is as preordained as everything else in \u201cClean,\u201d which makes sure to always keep its audience one step ahead of the action. 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