Wolfs: When star power makes you watch a movie

A movie can impact a viewer in many ways. It can make you sad, it can make you cheerful. 
But can a film impact any one physically though? If it brings tears to the viewer's eyes, we can say so. But can a movie give you lower back pain? More on that later.

The plot

So in Wolfs – a 2024 American action comedy film – a New York official, played by Amy Ryan, got entangled with the 'dead body' of 'not a (male) prostitute' in a luxury hotel suite. Panicked, she calls a cover up artist or fixer (played by George Clooney) to manage the situation. 

As he starts working, another fixer (played by Brad Pitt) shows up. Turns out, the hotel's owner sent him to protect the reputation of the hotel as she watched the incidents unfold through a hidden camera. The two fixers, both lone wolves, immediately refuse to work together, but are pressured into agreeing to partner.
The two – both of whom think they are the best in the line – then engage in a competition to undermine the other's methods of doing things, which seem to be impressive. 
Ironically, as one of the high-stake outlaws tries to hide his pain from a bad back, it turns out that the other has the same problem. As tough as they seem, neither of them can read without glasses, or run like athletes. It is these small things that will make you laugh throughout the movie.
Although they don't want to work together, they think the same way, go to the same underground medic for help, and even dress the same way. You cannot but notice, when they first arrive to make the 'problem' go away, they are both wearing blue gloves. 

So as they bring new sets of clothes (with striking similarity) for the official, she takes the top from one, and the skirt from another to mitigate rivalry.
As the men work through their differences toward accomplishing their job, they discover that the 'deceased' person has a large stash of drugs with him, which they assume he was supposed to deliver somewhere. This complicates the problem, as they realise the drug mafia would be trying to trace the man for the missing shipment. 
It is this moment when the fixers realise they have a long cold night ahead and must work as a team to take care of the larger problem. Then, it gets more complicated when the 'dead body' starts running.
Okay, no more spoilers.
As you see, the plot may not be extraordinary, like most other Hollywood thrillers. I mean you watch Christopher Nolan et al for great plots, right? 

The verdict

Wolfs is for light hearted thriller fans looking for just a bit of fun. I guess most will agree that two incredibly handsome actors doing comedy with a straight face is way better than Johny Lever doing it back in the day. 
It's the lead characters, Clooney and Pitt – who are not named in the movie – that will glue you to the chair as you enjoy the anti-heros doing their thing.

Written and directed by Jon Watts, the film had a one-week limited theatrical release in September 2024, and was released on Apple TV+ later. The movie has a rating of 6.5/10 on IMDB, and 3.9/5 on Google. I'm ready to give it a straight 8/10 just for the cast.

The fixers in the movie, when confronted by hitmen trying to kill them, agree to exchange names if they come out alive. Good news is, there is going to be a sequel, Apple confirmed, where we might catch their names.
Going back to the physical impact of a movie that I was talking about in the onset, the next morning, I felt moderate lower back pain which got intense by the end of the day. 
I blamed the movie for this. The pain must have been induced from the handsome but aged protagonists of the movie. It's funny how Pitt calls Clooney old in the movie, and a Gen-Z colleague of mine calls both of them, as well as me, old.

Anyway, the bad back either signals I'm really getting old, or that the movie is so good that I forgot to take notice of the bad posture I sat in the whole time (I didn't leave the seat once).
That, however, is for you to decide once you watch it.