Wolfs Movie Review
Nathan Swank
September 30th, 2024
George Clooney and Brad Pitt are back! And by that I mean the two mega famous movie stars are sharing the screen once again in a mildly amusing mediocre film, WOLFS. But it sure is fun seeing them on screen together again.
Neither actor has a character name in WOLFS. This works perfectly because when you’re as big as George Clooney and Brad Pitt, audiences are going to strictly associate you with your actor name and not your character name anyway. So let’s call our characters George Clooney and Brad Pitt. George Clooney and Brad Pitt are a couple of fixers. A fixer is a type of guy you call to clean up a mess, usually an accidental murder that you want to keep quiet from the law. Think Winston Wolf played by Harvey Keitel in PULP FICTION, but not as cool or as intriguing even though they are George Clooney and Brad Pitt. I’m going to say their names a lot because the entire appeal of this film is the fact that these two are in it.
So these two solo professionals, who both claim, “nobody can do my job, but me” unbeknownst to them get tapped to clean up the same job. From there the bitter rivalry begins as they both reluctantly have to work together to clean up this confusing mess that keeps adding one problem after another. What is the mess? I’m glad you asked. Probably the most intriguing section of the film is the opening where George Clooney is the first fixer to the scene where a young man, “not a prostitute” is presumed dead in a politician’s (the fabulous Amy Ryan) hotel room.
Clooney and Pitt are charming and funny with a dry wit and humorous callousness that is joy to watch. Unfortunately, the plot and action never rise above the passable line. WOLFS is nowhere near the sharp stylization and snappy back and forth from Steven Soderbergh’s brilliantly fun OCEAN ELEVEN movies. Written and directed by Jon Watt’s who helmed all three Spider-Man films with Tom Holland and small films like the COP CAR and CLOWN. I would have hoped for a better outing on his part without so much reliance on his stars.
Streaming on Apple TV+, WOLFS will satisfy as a cute, at times smile-inducing, forgettable movie watch from home that is moderately fun because it stars a couple of our most beloved movie stars. I just felt left wanting more. WOLFS definitely should have been better. Clooney and Pitt deserved better. The audience deserved better. WOLFS definitely should have been better. But it’s… (sigh) fine.
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