George Clooney and Brad Pitt’s huge new movie slated as ‘dreadful slog’ in scathing reviews

Brad Pitt and George Clooney might have had a blast for their new film, but it has been torn apart by a slew of critics.

The pair moved their chemistry to the big screen for new flick, Wolfs, which is released in cinemas today ahead of an Apple TV+ premiere on September 27.

In the movie, they played two professional fixers who are begrudgingly forced to team up after they’re hired for the same cover-up job, and led the way alongside Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams and Poorna Jagannathan.

While they clearly had a blast attempting to recreate their Ocean’s Eleven days, director Jon Watts’ crime caper failed to impress reviewers in quite the same way.

Wolfs currently boasts a critics score of 69% on Rotten Tomatoes but many slated it as ‘staggeringly banal’ and ‘a little better than mediocre’ on the platform.

Manohla Dargis from the New York Times said: ‘It isn’t remotely tense or mysterious, and its modest thrills derive wholly from the spectacle of two beautifully aged, primped, pampered and expensive film stars going through the motions with winks and a degree of brittle charm.

George Clooney and Brad Pitt reunited in Wolfs (Picture: Apple TV+)

‘Mostly, though, Wolfs, written and directed by Jon Watts, is an excuse for its two leads to riff on their own personas, which can be faintly amusing and certainly watchable but also insufferably smug. It’s insufferable a lot.’

‘A dreadful, laugh-free slog that tests the limits of what star power alone can salvage,’ the New York Post’s Johnny Oleksinski agreed, adding that the leads ‘get in an impressively boring shootout while always being totally unbelievable in their roles’.

Barry Hertz from the Globe and Mail said: ‘Too quickly, Watts’s story slips from mildly interesting to extremely irritating, and there is no amount of gentle ribbing between various eras of People’s Sexiest Man Alive that can compensate for such narrative derivativeness.’

Pop Matters’ Ana Yorke penned: ‘The issue is that Wolfs sets the bar so low that one cannot but notice how easily this could have been a considerably better film.’

The flick is released in cinemas before premiering on Apple TV+ (Picture: Apple TV+)

As Looper’s Audrey Fox added: ‘Wolfs is blatantly obvious, with no surprises or twists you can’t see coming a mile away, but sometimes you want the dull comfort of a movie that’s so thoroughly committed to doing absolutely nothing.’

Despite the savage reviews, Deadline reports that the Hollywood icons have already signed up for a sequel alongside Jon.

George previously made headlines when he was forced to address claims that he and Brad were paid ‘more than $35,000,000’ each to star in and produce Wolfs.

Speaking at a press conference, he insisted that their actual salary was ‘millions and millions and millions of dollars less than what was reported’.

Critics have not been kind about the crime movie… (Picture: Apple TV+)

‘I am only saying that because I think it’s bad for our industry if that’s what people think is the standard bearer for salaries,’ he added, noting that it ‘will make it impossible to win’.

He also shared his thoughts on the decision for the movie to be get a limited cinema release before dropping on Apple TV+ soon after.

Sony was initially poised to distribute the film widely in cinemas – including in the UK – ahead of the planned streaming release, before Apple pivoted on the plan just weeks ahead of release in August.

George previously set the record straight on speculation surrounding Wolfs (Picture: Shutterstock)

‘We did it for MGM and then it ended up being for Amazon, and we didn’t get a foreign release at all which was a surprise. There are elements of this that we are figuring out,’ he said.

‘But on the other hand, a lot of people are going to see the film, and we are getting a release in a few hundred cinemas – but yeah, it would have been nice to have a wide release.’

Wolfs is in cinemas now.

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