3 Short Paragraphs (Or Not): Wolfs

2024, John Watts (Spider-Man: Homecoming) -- download

Weird, but the main thing I liked about this movie was how it was shot.... the winter happening in NYC, snow coming down, turning to slush in the next scene, being depicted as heavier & sticking around the further from Manhattan the characters got, the emptiness of the city close to Xmas. Also, Aging Men with Guns which is my thing, but I refused to attach a tag to it. 

Again, with the inserting into October and the "I Saw This!!" vibes.

Margaret (Amy Ryan, The Wire) is somebody, a woman with the pull to call someone else to clean up her mess. This particular mess is a dead kid in his underwear and her covered in his blood. "Margaret's Man", as he is called in the credits but we will call Clooney (George Clooney, The American) from this point on (maybe he comes from "Margaret's Museum" ?) as that nomenclature is too bulky (like the word "nomenclature" isn't?) shows up -- an Aging Man with Gun, black jacket and a fixer's kit bag. She called a number, he came, he has a plan.

Then "Pam's Man" shows up, whom we will call Pitt (Brad Pitt, The Mexican) from now on. Pam is the hotel's owner who saw everything in the not so hidden camera and activated fixer Pitt to clean things up. He's a veritable clone of Clooney and they instantly see it and instantly dislike each other. That is the elevator pitch for the movie. Well, that and the body or "The Kid", who we will continue to call Kid (Austin Abrams, Dash & Lily), is not dead, just really out of it due to the amount of pure heroin he put up his nose. Said heroin is the actual focus of the movie, the MacGuffin the characters have to get back to its original owner before all shit hits all fans.

No point in going over the plot, as its all fun chase scenes and "old married couple" banter between Pitt and Clooney and Kid, a kid out of his depth, just being weird. Kid is really the highlight of this movie, running around either in his underwear or in the not-chosen outfit for Margaret. He starts off as all grunts and energy to spare which he burns off running from Clooney and Pitt. But eventually he is onboard with the plan.

"It was fine," as I am wont to say. Amusingly this was more Clooney and Pitt from the coffee commercials than it was cranky, crafty, aging fixers. But still, they are always charming. And I like any opportunity to visit the somewhat-comparable-age of an "action hero" character.

Kent's view -- we agree.