Cleaner

Joey (Daisy Ridley) works as a window cleaner at a skyscraper. She's having a bad day: her autistic brother Michael (Matthew Tuck) got ejected from the sheltered accommodation he lives in, she's late for work and her asshole boss is threatening to fire her if she doesn't make up the hours she's missed tonight.

Things are about to get worse: radical environmentalist Marcus Blake (Clive Owen) has made plans to gatecrash the company's glitzy gala this evening.

No good will come of this.

So, imagine if Die Hard and Slow Horses had a baby.

This is like a feature length episode of a slightly cynical, very British cop show with a world weary guv (Ruth Gemmell's Superintendent Hume) dealing with terrorists in an office block boobytrapped with explosives and doing computer hacker type stuff. Throw in Daisey Ridley as a reluctant John McClain analogue and off we go.

It's not like something made for cinema but very much like if the BBC did this, but surprisingly did it well.

There's some cringey stuff: the depiction of Michael's autism is "he's a reactive man baby but also a hacker", the Police stuff is very British TV, the kidnapped executives sweaty Fat Cat stereotypes etc etc.

However it hangs together well and did not outstay its welcome. Better than expected 7/10 low rent action fare.