Movie review
September 20, 2024 · 108 min · R
Woke Score
Lower is better
Review
Wolfs is a 2024 action-comedy in which two rival professional fixers played by George Clooney and Brad Pitt are forced to collaborate on one chaotic night after both are hired to clean up a Manhattan district attorney’s scandal involving a dead body and a large drug stash. The story follows their bickering partnership through chases, mob confrontations, and escalating complications in New York’s underworld. No audience-visible identity politics, activist dialogue, gender messaging, or representation emphasis appears in the narrative, casting, marketing, or public discussion.
Breakdown
These are the editorial factors and ratings behind our score for Wolfs.
Woke representation / casting
Casting centers on two white male stars whose personas fit the buddy-fixer premise exactly; one supporting South Asian actress in a small NYC underworld role with no signaling, emphasis, or audience-visible mismatch.
Woke political dialogue
No political, activist, or social-justice dialogue of any kind; all banter stays within job rivalry, professionalism, and literal cleanup logistics.
Identity-driven story themes
Narrative engine is pure genre partnership and criminal logistics with zero identity politics, gender arcs, or representation focus.
Western institutional / cultural critique
No modern activist framing of institutions, toxic masculinity, patriarchy, capitalism, or Western culture; any light meta on aging stars remains non-ideological and incidental to the plot.
Woke character or canon changes
Not relevant (original screenplay, no adaptations or legacy IP).
Anti-woke backlash and complaints
No backlash accuses the film of pushing woke or identity content; only fringe, unrelated complaints target Clooney personally.
Creator track record context
Watts has zero relevant activist history; Clooney’s separate liberal record supplies minor context but is not reflected in this project’s themes or promotion.
Production
