Mike McCahill 

Unfinished Business review – indifferent post-Horrible Bosses corporate comedy

The emerging genre of exec-relief comedy marches on with this by-numbers Vince Vaughn vehicle about hijinks on a corporate jolly
  
  

Unfinished Business film still
Can’t even commit to its own raucousness … Unfinished Business. Photograph: Jessica Miglio Photograph: Jessica Miglio/PR

Horrible Bosses has apparently spawned a new subgenre: exec-relief comedy, offering conformist capers for frustrated suits to nod off to on long-haul flights. This rote entry, in which vertical corpse Vince Vaughn joins horny Dave Franco and hoary Tom Wilkinson on a corporate Berlin jolly, can’t even commit to its own raucousness, retreating from sniggering, Pitbull-scored misadventures in spas and gay bars so that family guy Vince can log wholly insincere FaceTime sessions with a bullied son. No better or worse than indifferent, although its targeting of the German capital for fratboy profiteering suggests some renegotiation of the Marshall Plan may now be necessary.

 

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