The most interesting thing about the new Apple TV movie “Wolfs” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt is how two of the top actors in the movie industry chose a screenplay this run-of-the-mill, mundane, and boring to collaborate and star in. Are there so few great screenplays in Hollywood to choose from or was this production part of a favor bank that both Cooney and Pitt were obligated to join?
The story is extremely simple. Two “cleaners” Brad Pitt, known as Margaret’s Man in the credits, and George Clooney, known as Pam’s Man are called by a frantic woman who thinks that a young man in her apartment may have killed himself by accidentally jumping off her bed and crashing into a table.
This young man played by Austin Abrams appears in this movie almost the entire time, wearing nothing but socks and underpants. He runs from Pitt and Clooney, several criminals throughout a city, many times in the rain, wearing only socks and underpants. I cannot remember ever seeing something this strange and unusual in a comedy/action movie before. Why not have this poor actor wear some jeans – or shoes? Running through a city in socks had to be a major challenge, to say the least. What was the idea here? Just to do something different? This time to show an “underpants running man”?
Was all of this supposed to be funny? Unfortunately, most of the attempted “underpants running” humor in this movie did not work as well as the competitive banter between Clooney and Pitt that for the most part was boring at best.
What follows is the discovery of drugs and a scheduled drop-off that leads to some gunplay and an ending that seems to just degrade into a very run of the mill, seen this many times before ending.
The Rotten Tomatoes rating for Wolfs is an equally anemic 68% – a number I agree with, and I do not recommend this movie.
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