Wolfs Movie Review: This Snarling Wolf Doesn’t Bite at All
Wolfs is a 2024 action movie distributed by Apple TV plus with hints of comedy sprinkled throughout the screenplay, like salt on an otherwise boring, leafy salad. The movie boasts the crowd-pulling duo of Brad Pitt and George Clooney, in an attempt to whirl up a nostalgia-based recipe for box office success.
Wolfs Movie Plot
George and Brad play the identical roles of crime scene management experts who end up being hired for the very same job.
What follows later is a clash of egos between them, a goofy stranger who they have to babysit and protect, a final action-packed blowout with lots of gunpowder being burnt, a change of heart, and a climax that makes you wanna pull your hair out with frustration.
Wolfs: The Filmmakers
‘Wolfs’ is written and directed by Jon Watts, the man who directed the nostalgia-heavy joyride known as Spiderman: No Way Home. His signature affinity for realism and showcasing the humane aspect of characters is evident in ‘Wolfs’ as well.
The subtle touch of heroic sarcasm in ‘Wolfs’ during grave situations, has a very ‘Spiderman’ kinda feel to it. Jon Watts makes you empathize with legit killers, with his trademark lighthearted dialogues.
The dialogues in ‘Wolfs’ had a certain carefree, youthful, and vibrant zing to them, much like his dialogues in Spiderman: Homecoming.
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The title ‘Wolfs’ given by the makers, indicates the fact that Brad and George’s characters, when working in tandem, are equally as ferocious as an entire pack of wolves. Thus, the title is ‘Wolfs’ and not 'Wolves’.
Wolfs: The Technical Aspect
The background music has a mellowed down peppy vibe to it, that makes you wonder what’s next but doesn’t quite churn up your stomach with anxiety or anticipation. You might disagree with the background music at certain times but might love it when it takes a more endearing path. Overall, the background score is decent.
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However, what really feels crazy is the cinematography, as the movie felt like a neo-noir and a bromance at the same time. There was one guns-blazing action sequence in the movie’s climax that felt incredibly atmospheric but otherwise, the action was okay.
The gorgeous visuals of ‘Wolfs’ charged up the movie to a bearable level, broke the ‘lull’ in the screenplay, and came across as a visual treat for the movie viewers.
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Wolfs: The Terribly Bland Aspect
Imagine a girl who makes your heart beat like an engine, gets your eyes to glitter, and takes your breath away but when she speaks, you can’t stop yawning while constantly praying for your phone to ring so that you can skip the boring conversation. ‘Wolfs’ is the movie personification of that same girl.
You will have more fun while counting the number of flakes present in a cereal box compared to watching this lazily written movie. Wolfs is shamelessly dependent on the boyish charms of Brad and George, a skidmark on the beautiful wall that is cinema, and shatters your expectation completely.
With each passing second, you are going to feel that screenplay is going to get coherent, the supposedly funny dialogues are going to have better analogies and this is an actual movie, not some cruel plan by the movie’s director to reduce a movie lover’s 1 hour 40 mins of time to ashes” but it never gets to that.
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As the film progresses, your movie-watching standards will decline steeply and your respect for art movie directors will begin to soar, as Wolfs is an absolute borefest. The movie is so bad that if you play this in front of a cocoon, it will never transform into a butterfly.
If you have the entire Blu-ray collection of Ocean's Eleven movie series, then you might get angered enough to burn those things, after watching the pathetic joke that is ‘Wolfs’. So, please either hide your DVD set or the matchbox.
Wolfs: The Saving Grace
The only thing that stopped me from running into a wall head-first after watching ‘Wolfs’ was the very effervescent, goofy but endearing and extremely likable acting performance of Austin Abrams.
Austin played the distressed kid who is being manhandled by George and Brad’s characters. The innocent-eyed, recklessly charming, and ‘unaware of how the world works’ character played by Austin Abrams effortlessly eclipsed George and Brad’s starry screen presence.
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You want Brad and George to shut up with their repetitive, lackluster, and bland husband-wife kind of petty quarrels, but you would want to listen to whatever Austin’s character has to say each time he speaks.
The nervous, somewhat girly, gossip-loving character, hurriedly talking and beaming-with-innocence character of the kid will inspire hope and warm your heart. Watch this movie for Austin’s honest performance. We would like to rate the movie a 2 out of 5.
Wolfs: The Verdict
The dialogues felt like an English vocabulary class instead of a riveting, anticipation-inducing, meticulously crafted, and shock-factor-galore piece of written content that was supposed to be exciting.
You don't feel connected to the characters in the movie like you do with your siblings and parents, these characters are distant relatives at best who you hear the news about dying or fighting a venereal disease, from your parents.
George Clooney and Brad Pitt are criminally handsome but even their chiseled, sharp jawlines couldn’t make the cut this time.
‘Wolfs’ turns out to be a snarling wolf with zero bite force, even a Siberian husky can bite better than this pathetic excuse of a wolf.
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