It goes from being about not much at all to having probably too much plot for what it is, but damned if George Clooney and Brad Pitt don’t carry the whole thing on their broad shoulders, square jaws, and manly stubble.
It starts in a super swanky hotel suite in New York. Amy Ryan plays a public figure in a politically sensitive situation: there’s a dead young man on the floor of her room. She dials a number that someone (we don’t know who) gave her to call if she ever was in desperate need of a fixer. A clean-up man who gets her out of her bind.
The fixer is George Clooney, and not long after arriving to the hotel room and assessing the situation, another fixer shows up to the same scene… Brad Pitt. The two are instantly distrustful of each other, highly competitive and wondering how not one but two people with secret identities like themselves have ended up at the same place
The movie goes from not much plot at all to way too much near the end, but you won’t really care what the story is. I mean, that is, as long as it’s good enough for you to have two of the coolest guys playing two other cool guys and trading quips, as they founder from one perilous bit to another (one of which is important that I not give away).
Director Jon Watts has put together a great looking production with cool lighting and a nice narrative tone.
Is it great? No, not by a longshot- this is what the publicists call an “it is what it is” movie. And as much as I hate that phrase, I can’t argue that Wolfs (as in lone wolf times x 2) is just fine as a casual, functioning action comedy, though there’s more style than laughs, to be sure.
And who doesn’t like these two? They’re the living definition of Movie Stars, and they’re comfy in their serviceable parts.
Wolfs starts streaming Friday September 27th on Apple+ TV. Language, violence and drugs.
