Film: Wolfs  ( Apple TV)
Cast: George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams
Director: Jon Watts
Rating: 2/5
Runtime: 108 min.

Jon Watts who helmed the trilogy of Tom Holland Spider-Man movies manages to draw in A-listers George Clooney and Brad Pitt to star in ‘Wolfs.’ But other than the showboat actors, there’s really nothing to this tepid crime thriller that aims to score laughs by rubbing the actors up the wrong way. The comedy plays out as repetitive and tedious, the narrative has little to say, and the film basically relies on the chemistry between its stars. There’s no doubt that they are charismatic actors but a bad script like this can do them in too.

Wolfs follows a pair of lone-wolf fixers who are brought in separately to clean up a very messy hotel room that features the apparent dead body of a nameless young man (Austin Abrams) who may have been a male prostitute. Reputed District Attorney Margaret (Amy Ryan), wants the night’s events in the hotel room, including the body, to disappear. So she calls in Fixer #1.  Fixer #2 (Brad Pitt) is there because the new owner of the hotel, Pam, having seen what went on via an illegal camera, doesn’t want her hotel’s name besmirched. The two Fixers clash initially and later on decide to work together after the body they thought was dead suddenly wakes up alive and a bag of high quality drugs  is found in his possession.