With 2024 in its final months, today has been an interesting year in terms of movies, which is an understatement. However, one of 2024’s hidden games has been Wolfs, a witty comedy heist starring Brad Putt and George Clooney. While the plot to “Wolfs” might not seem like much at first glance, it’s really the amazing onscreen chemistry fans once again get between Brad Pitt and George Clooney.
The last time moviegoers saw Brad Pitt and George Clooney onscreen together was over fifteen years ago in Ocean’s Thirteen. Throughout the Ocean’s Eleven films, Brad Pitt and George Clooney were the heads of an elite group of con members that also starred Matt Damon and the late Bernie Mac. They systematically robbed some of the biggest land based casinos in town.
Part of the fun of watching George Clooney and Brad Pitt pulling off heist and after heist in the Ocean’s Elevens movies was the amazing onscreen chemistry between the two. It was an amazing brotherhood formed between the gang, but none bigger than that of George Clooney and Brad Pitt.
So, when Apple TV first announced its production of Wolfs late last fall, fans of the Ocean’s Eleven sequels and the Cohen Brothers’ hit film Burn After Reading, which also starred Brad Pitt and George Clooney, together couldn’t wait to see these two onscreen icons together.
In Wolfs, an R-rated comedy heist that runs 108 minutes, George Clooney and Brad Pitt both star as fixers for the underworld who unknowingly get hired on the same job by the embattled District Attorney, Margaret, played by Amy Ryan from the The Office. After getting drunk with an old friend, it turns out that he is more than just dead drunk – he’s dead. Scared and in a panic over this looming scandal, Margaret breaks down and calls on the experienced and no-nonsense Clooney’s cleaner character to clean up the mess.
However, little does Margaret know that the hotel manager, Pam, played by Frances McDormand, witnessed the whole thing go down on security footage. Concerned also about the potential scandal, she calls the hotel’s own fixer, played by Brad Pitt. As you would expect, once Pitt arrives at the hotel room, the fun and games and the dry wit humor between Pitt and Clooney begin. And so the adventure begins. What should have been a simple case of cleanup becomes much more complicated, with plenty of red herrings and a comedy of errors along the way.
Written and directed by Jon Watts, critics couldn’t help but notice and write about the unusually slower place that Wolfs moves too. Maybe there is some truth to it, or maybe we’re still hardwired to see Brad Pitt and George Clooney as Danny and Rusty in the explosive and fast-paced Ocean’s movies directed by Steven Soderbergh,
Lacking many of the usual plot twists associated with Brad Pitt’s and George Clooney’s films together, the only notable curve ball thrown in Wolfs, is that Margaret’s young boyfriend, “The Kid,” played by Austin Abrams, actually turns out to still be alive. Going from bad to worse, George and Brad now have to become reluctant partners about what to do with “The Kid” while keeping Margaret out of a scandal.
However, the main thrill of Wolfs is the main reason why Apple TV decided to do a soft and limited theatrical release along with its distribution throughout Apple TV – the amazing onscreen chemistry between Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Wolfs made its debut on September 20thand is available for video on demand at Apple TV.
