The ending of Apple TV+‘sWolfspays homage to a classic Western film, but the sequel announcement weakens its impact. Brad Pitt and George Clooney lead theWolfscastas fixers, men who are brought in to clean up bad situations, such as a dead body. While typically a job that’s a solo endeavor, the premise of the film sees two fixers utilized for the same job, forcing them to put aside their differences to work together. What results is a buddy-fixer scenario where they end up growing quite fond of one another.
The film, directed bySpider-Man: Homecomingfilmmaker Jon Watts, covers an evening in the life of these two men. By theWolfsending, they’ve really grown to appreciate having someone around who understands what they’ve been through. Pitt and Clooney’s characters sit at a diner for breakfast, delivering their final thoughts on the crimes that have occurred. In doing so, they realize that the whole evening has been a set-up for them and that they weren’t meant to survive.Wolfsends with Pitt and Clooney ducking behind a table, preparing for a firefightwith several armed gunmen.
Wolfs’ Ending Is An Homage To Butch Cassidy And The Sundance Kid
Butch And Sundance Ends By Cutting To Credits Before A Final Gunfight
Wolfsis a film that’s been crafted with a clear respect for the many similar crime movies of the past, often playing ironic jokes about the character stereotypes in fixer movies.Wolfsalso pays direct homage toButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the classic1969 Western that starred Robert Redford and Paul Newman as gunslingers on the run from an oppressive force of lawmen. Both movies see pairs of all-time great movie stars as the leads, and in both cases, their characters barely survive through a series of intense obstacles.
In the case ofButch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the classic Western movieends with its two titular cowboys backed into a corner against an enormous force of gunmen. The film cuts to the credits just before they’re about to go down shooting, implying their death but not directly showing it. TheWolfsending offers a similar ambiguity, with the credits arriving as the final shootout begins, leaving it unclear if Pitt and Clooney’s characters survive the encounter.
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The Ending Is Weakened By The Wolfs Surviving
AWolfssequel is in development at Apple with Pitt, Clooney, and Jon Watts apparently set to return. So, that provides a pretty clear-cut answer that they don’tdie at the end of the movie, and it ruins the chance of using that ending in the future. Imagine a sequel toWolfsthat builds on the brotherhood of these two men, establishing a deeper emotional tie for their friendship andthenchoosing to use theButch and Sundanceending.It’d certainly hit harder as an ending to the final film in the series, and it’s disappointing that it was wasted on the first one.
Wolfs
Wolfs is an action-thriller film written and directed by Jon Watts, and sees the on-screen reunion of Brad Pitt and George Clooney after nearly fifteen years. The film centers on two fixers who are brought together when they’re both hired for the same job.
