The trope of ‘protagonist having no name’ is one of the coolest we have seen in contemporary media, be it Fight Club or Tenet. Now imagine it is being utilized in a movie that keeps on referring to it to the point that it just becomes campy. Well, that is just one of the flaws in the recently released Jon Watts’ ‘Wolfs’.
Starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt, the two names that ooze with charisma. And yet, the performances from the two of them fall short because of mediocre writing. The movie revolves around their “buddy” chemistry, which is certainly there. The two men work as “fixers” who come to clean up after someone ends up in a mess. In this case, the said mess was a DA with a dead sex worker.
The slow pacing is perhaps the biggest flaw. A fourth of the 108-minute runtime is just taken up by the resolution between the two fixers and them coming together to do the job. The overdoing of gags is a close second. The movie lacks highly in the comedy side of things. As the humor gets stale real quick.
Instead of things being a running gag, they smack the audience in the face with it. The action doesn’t really help the cause any better. No wonder the movie has opened with a rather weak score of 63% on Rotten Tomatoes. Which was not expected given that it has huge names like Clooney and Pitt working in its favor. The movie is available to stream on Amazon Prime Video.