Wolfs movie story: George Clooney and Brad Pitt are two lone wolf fixers, men who are called in to clean up potentially problematic situations. Unaware of each other’s existence, their worlds collide when they are called in for the same job – one’s client being a hot-shot lawyer, whose potential one-night stand went awry, and the other working for the hotel, which doesn’t want this mess on the premise. Forced to work together to ensure both set of clients are satisfied that the job’s in safe hands, they soon realize that there’s more than just a body disposal at play.

Wolfs movie review: Director John Watts’ buddy comedy Wolfs rides on the chemistry between the lead pair – George Clooney and Brad Pitt’s characters meant to be as if they’d been cut from the same piece of cloth. They start off with a mutual dislike and distrust of each other, only to realize that they make quite the team. There’s a lot of attempted one-upmanship between the duo, which is amusing at first, but gets tiresome soon enough, especially if you’ve seen the trailer of Wolfs. The novelty runs out really fast. The set up of Wolfs is, no doubt, designed to warrant follow-up movies, but that would be a gross misstep.

So, in comes a third unnamed character, a young man, who was earlier presumed dead and was the body that needed to be disposed. Well, not only was he not dead, but he had also sampled the drugs that he was meant to drop off later on, which rendered him almost pulseless. The kid’s carrying a few bricks, which means the fixers now need to ensure the drugs reach the owner, and that the carrier doesn’t tattle. The kid, played by Austin Abrams, has no stake in the game and just wants to run the errand and go back home. With the Albanian mob involved, that’s not going to be such an easy task.

For what it’s worth, Wolfs doesn’t really take itself too serious; it helps that the lead cast appear to be enjoying the wafer-thin plot and each other’s company. They exude lot of easy-on-the-eye charm and are perfect as fixers who are getting too old for the job – it’s not just the back that’s giving up. The film doesn’t have much going for it other than the lead pair, with the rest of the characters not getting more than a scene or two.

Wolfs movie verdict: There’s only so much that Clooney and Pitt can do to hold up a barely there plot, that’s neither in the thriller zone nor full-on comedy. It’s a criminal waste of talent when you have two stars onboard, but give them nothing to chew on.

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