Wolfs (2024)

Disappointing Crime Caper Comedy - Wolfs review by GI

Aside from the glaring grammatical error of the title (or is there some meaning or joke I've missed?) this is a bit of a misfire. A rather silly crime caper that is simply a vehicle for Brad Pitt and George Clooney, great friends in real life, to share a screen together. To be honest it's difficult to tell them apart in this and that maybe part of the humour but after awhile their banter is the only thing that produces humour and it begins to lose it's impact quite quickly. This is a film that I couldn't help think would have been better as a serious crime thriller, certainly all the gritty ingredients are there, dead bodies, a bag full of drugs, a horde of nasty Albanian gangsters etc etc but alas the script opts for comedy that is mostly mediocre including a totally ridiculous set piece in a night club. Clooney and Pitt play two underworld 'fixers' who find they get hired for the same job and have to work together. I'm struggling to remember if their character names are at all mentioned but if not it doesn't matter because this is all about Clooney and Pitt, on screen...together. They resent having to do so both believing they are the class act in their field. But what seems a simple job of disposing of a corpse soon goes awry and the two are beset by the aforementioned gangsters after a young man with the drugs that the two have to....blah blah blah. It matters not this is a self satisfied crime caper with the two stars having great fun which is, in parts, infectious but overall this is a bit of a disappointment.