Academy Award-winner Adrien Brody goes dark as night in the ultraviolent "Clean," a deeply moody, very midnight-y revenge thriller that's like "John Wick" for the grindhouse set.
Brody, who co-wrote the script (and also composed the trap-laden score, respect), plays a mysterious upstate New York man with a haunted past who goes only by Clean. By day he puts fresh coats of paint on dilapidated inner-city homes and by night he drives a garbage truck, anything to keep his mind off his vice: sadistic, barbaric violence, usually inflicted with garage tools like his trusty heavy-duty wrench, which he wields like Thor's hammer of the gods.
Brody mutters "Taxi Driver"-like narration like he's been up for three whole nights and has no plans to go to sleep. "No matter how hard I try, I can't wash away the past," he grumbles, and pity the poor sound engineer who had to stay up until 4:30 in the morning recording the voice-over session.
