Best known for his roles in Quentin Tarantino-directed features like Pulp Fiction and The Hateful Eight, Samuel L. Jackson has also become one of the highest-grossing actors in history thanks to his role as Nick Fury in the MCU. Jackson even joined the Star Wars universe during the prequel trilogy as the purple lightsaber-wielding Mace Windu, and while his character seemingly perished in Revenge of the Sith, there are rumors that he will be brought back for a future project. Jackson also made his debut in the Taylor Sheridan universe last year with a role in Tulsa King Season 3, and he was enlisted to lead the first Tulsa King spin-off, Frisco King. Paramount released the first look at Frisco King not long ago and confirmed that the series will be released on December 18.
When any star has been acting in movies as long as Samuel L. Jackson, it’s only natural that some of them are going to be largely forgotten over time. One of his movies that fans may not remember is Cleaner, which will celebrate its 20th anniversary next year — the movie is not to be confused with the 2025 Daisy Ridley film of the same title. Hailed as Jackson’s replacement for Training Day, Cleaner also stars Ed Harris and Eva Mendes, and the film was written by Matthew Aldrich and directed by Renny Harlin. Cleaner has found a streaming home on Netflix for the last few months, but the film was officially removed from the platform at the end of October. It’s still available to rent or purchase on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV, and a new streaming home will likely be announced soon.
Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you
handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive
the trilogy, and probably headline it.
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t
escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are
so careful never to be the reason you start.
- The Wick films run on discipline: an underworld with actual etiquette, a hero who
honours every rule of it, and a world that unravels the instant someone breaks one
against him. - You share that quality. You are extraordinarily reasonable right up to the line, and
then completely immovable past it. - Focus, commitment and sheer will. You’d be the one carrying grief through three sequels
and turning it into technique rather than noise. - People wouldn’t call you dangerous. They’d say your name quietly and let that do the
work.
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about:
the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and
you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
- This series went from street racing to orbit without ever changing its actual subject,
because loyalty scales and plot doesn’t have to. - You have the same instinct. You build a family out of whoever turns up, and then you
defend it past the point of reason. - You’d thrive here because the franchise rewards exactly your strengths: warmth, nerve,
an absolute refusal to leave anyone behind, and a relaxed relationship with physics. - The mission can wait. The barbecue cannot.
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself
anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how
to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
- This is the franchise of the plan that collapses on schedule: the team, the mask, the
rooftop, and the one person sprinting flat out because sprinting is all that’s left. - You share that refusal to accept an outcome. Told the odds, you treat them as an
administrative error. - You’d thrive here because these films reward competence and loyalty in equal measure.
The mission matters, but nobody on the team gets left on the wrong side of a door. - Some people delegate the cliff. You have never once been that person.
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best
equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the
end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
- Die Hard invented the modern action hero by making him mortal: outgunned, out-planned,
bleeding, and extremely funny about it. - You share that stubbornness. Adversity doesn’t make you noble, it makes you sarcastic,
and then it makes you unstoppable. - You’d thrive here because these films reward improvisation and nerve over preparation,
and you’ve never had the luxury of preparing anyway. - You didn’t want any of this. You just declined to be the person who let it happen.
What Is ‘Cleaner’ About?
A young Keke Palmer also has a key role in Cleaner, alongside the late Robert Forster, who tragically passed away in 2019 but was best known for his work in projects such as Jackie Brown and Olympus has Fallen. The official synopsis for Cleaner, which earned poor scores of 17% from critics and 40% from audiences on the aggregate site Rotten Tomatoes, reads as follows:
“Retired policeman Tom Cutler (Samuel L. Jackson) works as a crime-scene cleaner to support his young daughter. Cutler’s quiet life is thrown into turmoil when woman-in-peril Ann Norcut (Eva Mendes) contacts him in the wake of a routine job. When Norcut reveals that her husband has disappeared – and that his agency has sterilized an apparent crime scene in her home without her permission – Cutler turns to his hardened former partner, police Detective Eddie Lorenzo (Ed Harris), for answers.”
“Retired policeman Tom Cutler (Samuel L. Jackson) works as a crime-scene cleaner to support his young daughter. Cutler’s quiet life is thrown into turmoil when woman-in-peril Ann Norcut (Eva Mendes) contacts him in the wake of a routine job. When Norcut reveals that her husband has disappeared – and that his agency has sterilized an apparent crime scene in her home without her permission – Cutler turns to his hardened former partner, police Detective Eddie Lorenzo (Ed Harris), for answers.”
Check out Cleaner on VOD platforms like Prime Video and Apple TV and stay tuned to Collider for more updates and coverage of Samuel L. Jackson’s future projects.
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