The trailer for the highly anticipated movie Wolfs dropped on Wednesday morning.
Wolfs stars longtime friends George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime in NYC.
The two start out as strangers who arrive at the same crime scene and they dislike each other right from the get go, trading mean barbs.
They compete side by side as they dodge threats from the police and the Albanian mob.
Wolfs – which already has a sequel in the works – will debut on Friday on Apple TV+.
The trailer for the highly anticipated movie Wolfs dropped on Wednesday morning
Pitt and Clooney first acted together in 2001’s Ocean’s Eleven.
And like that remake riff on the Rat Pack original, Wolfs is as much, if not more, about its movie stars as it is anything else.
The movie’s appeal is mostly in their easy charm and chemistry – the little eye rolls and games of one-upmanship that accrue until, finally, they’re buddies, like we want them to be.
Clooney is 63 and Pitt is 60, and there are few bits about back pain and Advil in the film.
But Wolfs is designed to show you that they can still, without ever really breaking a sweat, get the job done.
When their characters meet, they are both standing in the penthouse of a luxury New York hotel where a tough-on-crime district attorney (Amy Ryan) is in desperate need of a cover up.
Wolfs stars longtime friends George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime in NYC
They compete side by side as they dodge threats from the police and the Albanian mob
The two start out as strangers who arrive at the same crime scene and they dislike each other right from the get go, trading mean barbs
Wolfs – which already has a sequel in the works – will debut on Friday on Apple TV+
A young, nearly naked man is seemingly dead on the floor.
She’s frantically searched her phone for a number once given for such emergencies.
That brings the first never-named fixer (Clooney) to the door.
Not long after, the second, also unnamed fixer (Pitt) knocks.
After a moment of confusion, he points to a small camera at the ceiling. He’s been dispatched by the hotel owner (an unseen Frances McDormand) who doesn’t want any bad press.
Informed that they have to finish the job together, the two fixers begin to go about the business of getting rid of the body.
The dead body they need to get rid of is not really dead, it turns out
Clooney is a salt and pepper wonder as he models a slick black leather jacket
They eye each warily, disinterested in giving away any tricks of the trade.
This mostly falls to Clooney’s character, whose creative way of lifting the body onto a luggage rack begins to earn the respect of Pitt’s character.
They turn out to have much, maybe everything, in common.
Slowly, reluctantly, they inch toward a partnership.
Once outside the hotel, Wolfs unspools over the course of one night, shot sleekly in the shadows of downtown Manhattan by cinematographer Larkin Seiple.
Things get a jolt when the body in question turns out to be alive, and kind of a hoot, too.
The kid, credited only as ‘Kid,’ is roused from a drug-induced stupor, and quickly, in tighty whities, goes escaping down the street, forcing the two fixers on an extensive chase leading up to the Brooklyn Bridge.
The actors seen at a restaurant as they discuss their dilemma
A sequel has already been announced. Wolfs turns out to be both the beginning and the coda of a beautiful friendship
The kid is played with a lot of goofy moxie by Austin Abrams (Euphoria, The Walking Dead), and his account of how he got into this mess, delivered in a cheap motel, may be the film´s best sequence.
Regarding Clooney and Pitt, both in leather jackets, from the back seat of the car, he otherwise correctly assesses them, calling them ‘like the two coolest people I’ve ever met.’
A sequel has already been announced. Wolfs turns out to be both the beginning and the coda of a beautiful friendship.
Wolfs, an Apple Studios release is rated R by the Motion Picture Association for language throughout and some violent content. Running time: 108 minutes. Three stars out of four.
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