Currently, this movie--after being out for about 3 weeks--sits at a 6.2/10 on here. That's not unfair. I think if you see it while in a good mood, you might give it a 7 and if you see it while in a bad mood, you might give it a 6 (that might tell you what mood I was in when I watched it).
The story is that this somewhat older and wealthy lady at an ultra expensive hotel ends up with a dead young man. She calls for help, and a hitman type character (played by Clooney) shows up. But, a little later and out of nowhere, another hitman-like character (played by Pitt) shows up as well. It turns out that the hotel had a camera and does not want the bad publicity, so they had sent in their own guy to clean up this "mess." I'm not giving away anything here because this is shown very early in the movie. The two hitman-like characters do not like each other but they have to work with each other for reasons the movie will reveal to you.
Let's look at two different aspects of this movie: its comedy and action. First, as to the comedy, there are not moments where you will laugh out loud unless you are super young or just don't watch very many movies at all. Having said that, there are moments throughout the entire movie that will make you smile and almost laugh. That's something. The comedy stems in large part from the two main character (again, Clooney and Pitt) not liking each other.
As for the action, there isn't a ton of it--this isn't like the John Wick movies--but there is some. I don't think it's more than 10 minutes of action and I'm basing that only on feeling. The action itself is fairly decent quality but nothing that you'll remember 2 days after watching this movie.
So this is a hitman comedy that won't cause you to laugh out loud, but will still have a degree of funny in it. It has some action of reasonable quality and has a simple and interesting story. You'll be entertained--there's no doubt about that--but one month after watching this movie--if not 2 or 3 weeks--you won't ever remember having watched it. But it would be wrong to call it a "cash-grab" type of movie. Some thought was definitely put into it, even if there's nothing ultra original in the entire movie.
Having said all of that, for a movie with big names like Clooney and Pitt, we have to expect more.
