The film may be about underworld fixers, but it’s really about the screen sensation when you put two movie stars together.
A tale of two New York underworld fixers – played by Brad Pitt and George Clooney – who make a wrong day’s journey into night,is nominally about rivals covertly cleaning up a crime scene, gangster machinations that leave them exposed, and the strain of masculine pride. But really, and ideally, it’s about movie stars. Specifically, the tangy screen sensation when you put two together and let them expertly simmer.
Neither surreptitious fixer provides a name, which is fine since we only think of them as Brad and George anyway. “I didn’t know people like you really existed,” Margaret says, a line that works equally well for the plot and the now-veteran stars filling it out. Watts has made a homage to old-school stardom, with Pitt and Clooney underplaying every scene, whether it involves mutual bristling or farcical interludes.
With a vibe from the 1990s – the decade in which the two leads found stardom – the film is nominally an action-comedy, although the action is slinky and economical while the comedy is droll and inferred. Unlike the trio ofis a low-key struggle for dominance. There are loaded glances, snippy disagreements and absurd workplace protocols.The duo looks elegantly weathered – kudos, seriously, to their hair teams – and the film is comfortably self-reflexive with their status.
The ending is too glib, but Watts’ direction is leanly efficient throughout – and that suits the project’s sangfroid. Still, the Pitt and Clooney edifice could have carried more weight. There’s only so many times you can needle-drop Sade’s
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