November 12, 2024

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Wolf (2024)

3 min read

What do you do if you get stuck in a bad situation and need someone to clean your mess, you call a wolf. Pitt and Clooney team up in this weird dark comedy of errors. They both play wolfs specialists in cleaning up messes you don’t want the police to see.

This apple plus movie brings together two of the icons of the 90s in one cooky dark movie, and you have to ask yourself, if either they are just bored or wanted a quick payday. This movie is a bit of a train wreck from the outset, the opening scene shows a supposed murder scene taking place and the helpless female (as there always is) calling Clooney, the “Wolf” to her hotel room where a liaison has gone bad to dispose of the evidence. Only in a twist at the start, he isn’t the only one to get the call, his unknown counterpart Pitt is also notified by their handler of the incident bringing them together, normally working alone they are forced to work as one on this case. Because, you know it wouldn’t be a good idea to just get on with it. Follow this with twists and the odd turn and you have the makings of what, should have been a made for TV movie, which is a made for streaming these days. The idea isn’t that bad its just the execution in this case is so poor it makes the whole thing pretty painful to sit through.

The movie tries its best to keep the audience engaged, with shootouts and gags for our hero’s so they can prove their worth. Twists in the tale bringing in the mob and other bad guys to be thwarted. But thats all has, the staging of this is made dark, and it just doesn’t work. The acting is, passable at best, these two simply look like they turned up to make a quick payday and that’s all.

Plot here is so thin you could see through it in the dark, and the actors simply try too hard to deliver mediocre dialogue that seems to have been written as a school project. The audience here, sitting at home in their living rooms, don’t get the engagement in characters we need to buy into these two or the realism that we need to buy into this as a story. Overall it is just bad, not worth your time, and from the looks of the ending open to interpretation as to whether it will get a sequel. Not for many a year have these two made something this mundane that you should just skip it.

Not that apple want you to think this, they have gone the whole hog on advertising this as the next best thing, side of buses, travel hubs media and the like. But its just over hyped, for what it is their budget would have been better spent on a rewrite than the advertising. Lets hope this slips into the search history of the past really quickly.. Unfortunately as is the case these days, the trailer looks better than the film turns out to be.

 

Please give it a miss 2/5

 

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