Wolfs

Wolfs
Stars: Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, Poorna Jagannathan, and Richard Kind
Director/Scriptwriter: Jon Watts
Composer: Theodore Shapiro
Cinematography: Larkin Seiple
Columbia Pictures/Sony Pictures
Rating: R
Running Length: 109 Minutes

Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Who would have thought! In a film together again, doing the same job, too, which is “fixing” after something is done. It has been over twelve years since they have done a film together. What a story line as presented by director/scriptwriter Jon Watts. There is comedy, mayhem, quips, action, and all rolls along as smoothly as a new Bentley. Along for the ride, with the two main characters, are Amy Ryan, and Richard Kind. If you use the word “fixer” you think of a handyman, and that is what the gentleman are, but a slight deviation of the word. They “handily” take care of things from action to dead bodies for disposal.

As the plot goes, Margaret (Amy Ryan) is an attorney who has a dead body in her apartment. She calls a certain phone number and quite soon a man (“fixer”) appears (no name, but it is Clooney) with plastic bags to clean up. He boasts of being the best. She is sent home. Suddenly, a second man (a fixer) appears (Pitt) who has been called for the same job. Chief Boss says to work together, and you can literally feel the loathsome here. However, they begin and so do the quips from the apartment to a garage and time with a luggage carrier, the corpse and a kid (called “Kid” here and it is Austin Abrams.) There is also a bag of heroin to contend with, plus the kid. Someone wants it all. What now?

Director Jon Watts sets his scenes well and lets Pitt and Clooney work together while the other actors come and go, they are the center as they go into traveling and even to a Croatian wedding. Along with them as a center, is the city of New York that is shown almost anew. A nighttime ride down lighted city streets is something that highlights the movie. The chase scenes are OK, especially the one with car and feet with the addition of the Kid coming in with his quips, too, sometimes it is a three-for-all in words. There are shoot-outs and close calls enough for fans. But be watchful of men who take many large plastic bags out of the trunk of their cars, along with rolls of tape. Could be fixing something more than plumbing.
I sense a sequel.

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