What happens when you get the two most charismatic people alive together in a movie? You build an ensemble of equally cool guys around them, and turn it into a slick, star-powered heist franchise. But with Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s Eleven crew dissolved, could George Clooney and Brad Pitt recapture the magic all on their twosome? Not really.
Wolfs, the new movie from Spider-Man: No Way Home director Jon Watts, is a breezy, effortlessly funny action caper powered by the crackling charisma of Clooney and Pitt — until it’s not. Watts, in his first film outside of the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2015’s Cop Car, relies too heavily on the natural charisma of his leads, who settle into a familiar rhythm that starts to get tired when the movie runs out of plot. But there’s something to say about the power of Clooney and Pitt’s chemistry that you don’t much mind spending a couple hours with them as they bicker, even as the film takes too much time spinning its wheels.
