A small business owner and his associates travel to Berlin to close an important deal, but the trip ends up being more than they can handle.
COMEDY
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Unfinished Business (2015)Directed by Ken Scott
Written by Steve Conrad Starring Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco, Sienna Miller, James Marsden, Nick Frost, June Diane Raphael |
Unfinished Business is a forgettable comedy that's only worth a few chuckles and doesn't bring anything new to the table. The script is pretty lousy, the characters are one-dimensional and typical, and the story is fairly predictable. The comedy is in short supply, mostly because the film relied on gross-out gags and the occasional one-liner. There's nothing organic or memorable throughout, and in the end, you get a sense that nothing was really accomplished.
Vince Vaughn plays Dan Trunkman, a small business owner who quit his job due to a pay decrease and has started his own competitive business. Dan is about to close the most important deal of his life, but when the client insists on meeting in Berlin, he and his two associates Tim and Mike (Tom Wilkinson and Dave Franco, respectively) end up getting wrecked throughout the German capital. Frankly, the trip never gets derailed, even though they end up in a gay bar, a protest, and turned down multiple times by the client. In truth, there's very little to keep the audience emotionally invested in either the characters or the story. I expected more from Tom Wilkinson, who is known for playing unique and interesting characters. Here, he's essentially a background character with very little to do. Franco, on the other hand, tries way too hard to make his bizarre, possibly mentally handicapped character funny. It's mostly just sad and uncomfortable. Overall, Unfinished Business feels like it was written in an afternoon after somebody watched three episodes of The Office and took some ecstasy. |