You know what you’re going to get as soon as you hear about Wolfs, an Apple TV+ movie written and directed by Jon Watts (Spider-Man: Homecoming, Spider-Man: Far From Home, and Spider-Man: No Way Home) and featuring unusual star power in the form of George Clooney and Brad Pitt. It’s going to be a mildly entertaining buddy movie tailored to them, a low-stakes action-comedy to watch when nothing better is on and you want something vaguely affable playing on-screen.
It’s about two unnamed fixers, each one a lone wolf who believes himself to be the only one who can handle the cleanup and cover-up of murder scenes with maximum professionalism. For complicated reasons, they get sent to the same crime scene and are arm-twisted into handling it together. Both are spiky and resentful, insulting each other nonstop, until certain developments begin to make it clear that this is no ordinary unlawful mess they’ve fallen into. You guessed it: they’re going to need to work together to figure out what’s really going on and why they actually got called in.
There, now you know the whole thing. You can just imagine all the byplay — Clooney doing that sharp head-twist thing with his eyes popping and his jaw jutting out that he does to express maximum impatience in an argument, Pitt staring scornfully while he drawls out a laconic burn, and so on. The convoluted crimes, the weird developments, the way the lone wolves gradually open up about their strange life paths and start becoming friends, et cetera.
The only surprise about their casting and performances is that Clooney is playing the fixer who’s supposed to be the significantly older man, while Pitt is the younger-generation fixer, which makes their rivalry even more charged. Since in reality, Clooney is sixty-three years old and Pitt is sixty, a few visual signifiers are necessary to make them look a little less like absolute peers. Clooney is given a gray beard, while Pitt’s graying…
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Auteur: Eileen Jones
