{"id":633018,"date":"2024-09-01T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T19:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-george-clooney-and-brad-pitt-in-winning-action-comedy\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T22:50:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T19:50:00","slug":"watch-george-clooney-and-brad-pitt-in-winning-action-comedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-george-clooney-and-brad-pitt-in-winning-action-comedy\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Winning Action Comedy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d81f296834\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3d81f296834\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-george-clooney-and-brad-pitt-in-winning-action-comedy\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_George_Clooney_and_Brad_Pitt_in_Winning_Action_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Winning Action Comedy&#8221;<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-2' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-george-clooney-and-brad-pitt-in-winning-action-comedy\/#%E2%80%9CGeorge_Clooney_and_Brad_Pitt_in_Winning_Action_Comedy%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Winning Action Comedy&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_George_Clooney_and_Brad_Pitt_in_Winning_Action_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Winning Action Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CGeorge_Clooney_and_Brad_Pitt_in_Winning_Action_Comedy%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Winning Action Comedy&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The movie-stars-are-over era has been overstated. If audiences are now drawn to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a> not for stars but for franchise concepts, I\u2019m not sure how to fit the career of Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet into that; Emma Stone and Zendaya would also like a word. That said, when you watch George Clooney and Brad Pitt in \u201cWolfs,\u201d a clever, airy, winningly light-fingered and debonair action comedy about two rival fixers who have to learn to work together, you\u2019d be forgiven for describing the sensation you feel as movie-star nostalgia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    These two have been stars since the \u201990s, and no one, least of all themselves, is pretending that they\u2019re young. Yet no one makes aging into the new cool more than they do. Clooney is the rare actor who has always worn his gray like the essence of glamour (when you catch a shot of him in the old days, the dark hair looks all wrong), and now, at 63, with a silver beard and hair not just two-tone but <em>marbled<\/em>, he\u2019s achieved a kind of fine-wine mystique. As for Pitt, a mere spring chicken at 60, he kind of <em>is<\/em> ageless.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Yet as \u201cWolfs\u201d demonstrates, the splendid way these two look would mean little if it weren\u2019t matched by their killer swagger. It\u2019s almost as if they made this movie to remind us all how it\u2019s done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cWolfs\u201d opens in a deluxe penthouse hotel suite in New York, where Margaret (Amy Ryan), a district attorney, is in a distraught panic. There\u2019s a young man, seemingly dead, lying next to the bed in his underwear, with smashed glass all around him. What h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened? She picked him up in the hotel bar, they came to the room, and he was jumping up and down on the bed when he accidentally fell and smashed through a glass table. File it under \u201cshit happens.\u201d To avoid a big mess, Margaret calls a number she has had in her contacts but has never used. It\u2019s the number of a fixer, played by Clooney, who im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely starts telling her what to do on the phone, exuding the dry authority of \u2026 Michael Clayton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Before long, Clooney shows up at the suite, slipping on his blue surgical fixer gloves, telling Margaret to sit down and have a stiff drink and not to worry, because he\u2019ll take care of everything. He will make it all disappear. It goes according to plan until a few minutes later, when there\u2019s a knock at the door, and who comes in but Pitt, wearing the same blue gloves. He\u2019s a fixer too. Who called him? The owner of the hotel, Pam (we hear her only as a voice on the phone), who saw the whole scene on a hidden security camera and wants the mess cleaned up as much as Margaret does. She doesn\u2019t need her hotel being toxified by scandal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Neither of the two men is ever named. Clooney\u2019s character, referred to in the credits simply as \u201cMargaret\u2019s man,\u201d is a figure of Swiss-watch precision and time-tested methods, all driven by the conviction that no one else can do what he does. But the arrival of Pitt, known only as \u201cPam\u2019s man,\u201d throws a monkey wrench into that. Clooney looks at Pitt as if he were a pretender, a mere amateur in the fixer <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>, but, in fact, both are experts at \u2026 well, fixing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    The spark plug of \u201cWolfs,\u201d as written and directed by Jon Watts (who directed all three of the Tom Holland \u201cSpider-Man\u201d films), is the nonstop stream of hostility and one-upmanship that passes between Clooney and Pitt like something out of an acid screwball comedy. It\u2019s not just that the two characters don\u2019t like each other. Each is invested in his own superiority \u2014\u00a0the special finesse of his skills. And so their back-and-forth isn\u2019t just about the putdowns. It\u2019s a kind of lethal contest to see who has the most fixer zen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Clooney and Pitt had this kind of chemistry before, in \u201cOcean\u2019s Eleven,\u201d where the unstated joke was that though they were rivals for Julia Roberts\u2019 affection who kept trying to top each other, it was in the very edginess of that competition that they found their bond. In \u201cWolfs,\u201d Clooney and Pitt revel in the crack timing, in the <em>I-truly-do-not-like-you<\/em> obscene banter, that makes even the most casual insult take wing. As the movie goes on, these two will learn to work together, but the film\u2019s anti-grammatical title is saying that each one is a lone wolf. They have no desire to mesh like <em>wolves<\/em>. The joke, of course, is that from their stylish leather jackets to their secret Mr. Big to their reading glasses, they\u2019re kind of the same man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Clooney\u2019s character knows a trick or two about how to hoist a body onto a hotel cart, and for a while, as the two take the elevator down to the parking garage, where they stow the body in the trunk of Clooney\u2019s car, the movie is all gambits and procedure, sort of like an improvised \u201cOcean\u2019s Duet.\u201d But it pivots and turns into a different sort of movie (I feel compelled to issue a spoiler alert, though this happens fairly early on) after the corpse\u2026refuses to lie still.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    \u201cWolfs\u201d turns into one of those buddy movies with a flaked-out wild card of a third wheel. Austin Abrams, from \u201cEuphoria\u201d and \u201cThe Walking Dead,\u201d plays the aforementioned dude in his underwear, known only as \u201ckid.\u201d He turns out to be a likably jabbering space case, like Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet infused with the spirit of the young Sam Rockwell. (At one point he has to wear a dress as a shirt, which is very Chalamet.) The key complication is that the kid was carrying four bricks of heroin in his backpack worth $250,000. How did he get them? He was doing a friend a favor, but the bottom line is that the fixers need to find out where those drug parcels came from and return them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    At a certain point, you realize that this task isn\u2019t truly about \u201cfixing\u201d (it could have been the plot of a \u201cStakeout\u201d sequel in the \u201980s), and the movie slips into more of a mock-standard-crime-thriller mode. But the mood retains its buoyancy, thanks to how Clooney and Pitt, even as they\u2019re teaming up, never lose an opportunity to take the piss out of each other. Quirks are revealed, like Clooney\u2019s penchant for getting to the bottom of what\u2019s happening by floating intricate conspiracy theories. A nightclub party sequence, in which they have to pretend not to know each other to avoid bringing down the wrath of an Albanian drug kingpin, proves to be a highlight of their improvised partnership. The scene in a diner at the end has a tasty tongue-in-cheek fatalism. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n    Coming out of the first showing of \u201cWolfs\u201d at the Venice Film Festival, a friend asked me if I tend to take a movie like this one, which will probably be streamed on Apple much more than it will be seen in movie theaters, and rate it on a made-for-streaming curve. The answer is no, though it\u2019s a good question, and you certainly could rate it both ways. Next to the vast majority of made-for-streaming fodder, \u201cWolfs\u201d looks the essence of a classy, witty, stylish entertainment. It looks downright old-fashioned (in a good way). But as a <em>movie<\/em>, which will indeed play in theaters, it is, in the end, a well-made throwaway, no more and no less. The buddy movie is always, on some level, a platonic love story, but in this case by the time Clooney and Pitt locate their bond, they\u2019ve come close to erasing the premise of the movie: that the key to a fixer is that he can\u2019t afford to have a heart. These two never lose their cool, but by the end you almost feel like they\u2019ve put on sheep\u2019s clothing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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