A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every way imaginable - and unimaginable (www.imdb.com).
Director: Ken Scott (Delivery Man)
Cast: Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco, Sienna Miller, Nick Frost, James Marsden
Unfinished Business should be fun and games, but we only get the games. The director of Delivery Man, Ken Scott, which also stars Vince Vaughn, has the same man on a 'quest for redemption', to get back to his family/woman so that he can live happily ever after. Sounds like most Vince Vaughn movies. At least Vaughn's typecast characters in The Dilemma, Couples Retreat and The Internship were mildly entertaining. In Unfinished Business he is not. That relief is found in his two business partners. The young Mike's (Dave Franco) naivety lands in some comical situations, as does the perverted ways of Timothy (Tom Wilkinson). Vaughn's more wooden than a fence panel. His personality needs spicing up. The trio's business trip to Germany is full of debauchery. They are trying to close the business deal of their lives. It's a smooth and easy viewing, lacking in major laughs. Some of their stickier situations are unbelievable, others comprehensible. The biggest problem falls in the character's lack of depth and a story that feels like there's unfinished business to attend to, even when the credits start to roll.
2.5/5
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