While preparing to clean up a crime scene, a lone wolf learns that he will have to team up with a colleague who is used to working alone.
Having brought back a young man (Austin Abrams from the series Euphoria) in a luxury hotel suite, Margaret (Amy Ryan), an elegant middle-aged woman, soon finds herself with a dead body on her hands. After dialing a mysterious number given to her by a trusted person, she is visited by a crime scene cleaner (George Clooney). Accustomed to working alone, the cleaner has no time to get to work before a second lone wolf (Brad Pitt) shows up on the scene.
Unsurprisingly, disagreement immediately reigns between the two men, who, with a few differences, could be the same person. A phone call from Pam (voiced by Frances McDormand), the hotel manager who is observing the scene through surveillance cameras, tells them that they will have to team up. Things get complicated when they discover the contents of the young man’s backpack. And that he is still breathing.
Written and directed by Jon Watts (the Spider-Man franchise with Tom Holland), Wolfsa thriller with a chic and icy aesthetic, brings together Brad Pitt and George Clooney for the fifth time after Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s trilogy, and Burn After Readingby Ethan and Joel Coen. From the outset, the chemistry between the actors is palpable in this thriller, where Watts leads the spectators in crazy and spectacular chases in the streets of New York at night.
As tough guys who have seen better days, Clooney, in gruff mode, and Pitt, relaxed, even nonchalant, exchange bitchy remarks about their age with disconcerting naturalness. While Austin Abrams’ character, who delivers a quasi-Olympic performance, raves about the style and coolness of the two cleaners, they complain of back pain, get out of breath while running and have to put on their reading glasses to decipher a message on a pager.
Producers of the film and friends in the city, the two sexagenarian actors visibly took pleasure in mocking their image as eternal seducers by playing characters inspired by Mr. Wolf, the cleaner played with panache by Harvey Keitel in pulp Fictionby Quentin Tarantino. Not relying solely on the fading charm of his stars, Jon Watts orchestrates perilous visits to the underworld and explosive shootouts. Punctuated with nods to Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kidby George Roy Hill, at Marathon Manby John Schlesinger, and Mean Streetsby Martin Scorsese, Wolfs turns out to be a playful and unpretentious homage to the cinema of the 1960s and 1970s.
In theaters. On Apple TV from September 27
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Wolfs (VF: Wolves)
Jon Watts
George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Austin Abrams, Amy Ryan
1 h 48