If there’s a good action movie, sign me up. But when there’s a trailer showing that Brad Pitt is getting smacked around, I’m in 200% (no one yell at me for it, he just takes a punch well). So when I first saw the trailer for Wolfs, it was an easy movie to add to my list. It has big named actors we’ve seen work well together, it has action, and it has Pitt taking a hit. Sad to report, that’s about where the excitement ended for the movie. As it starts out, the movie seems to drag and it doesn’t get better as it goes on.
Wolfs brings Brad Pitt and George Clooney back to the screen, in another collaboration since the Ocean films and Burn After Reading. If you’re heading into the theater expecting Oceans-level stories or acting – leave that at the concession stand. Wolfs isn’t really even a good popcorn movie that you can just sit and snack through and enjoy the story play out.
Both Pitt and Clooney are hired “fixers” and have been trained to clean up the worst messes for famous and rich people. When they are both called to the same job to clean up a death for the District Attorney, they are forced to work together. But not everything is as it seems and they find out that the kid isn’t dead after finding a bag full of drugs he hid in the room. Now, the mess they have to clean up is a lot worse than they even expected, but they have one night to fix every problem for their clients.
Probably the most disappointing part about Wolfs is the movie just should be better. You have two great actors who are basically reduced to Grumpy Old Men with guns. They spend the bulk of the movie just fighting, bickering, and cursing at each other, while a pretty loose story plays out around them. Sure, they were both hired for the same job and now got tossed into the middle of something that neither of them wants to deal with, but it just seems like a lot is missing. Yes, the movie has some action and it has a lot of gunfights along the way. But that isn’t going to help keep your attention through the other parts of the movie that drag on.
Wolfs will be released in theaters this weekend.
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About Wolfs
(In Theaters) Global superstars George Clooney and Brad Pitt team up for the action comedy “Wolfs.” Clooney plays a professional fixer hired to cover up a high-profile crime. But when a second fixer (Pitt) shows up and the two “lone wolves” are forced to work together, they find their night spiraling out of control in ways that neither one of them expected.
Starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, and Poorna Jagannathan