Mark Kermode, Observer film critic 

Unfinished Business review – ghastly Vince Vaughn comedy

Vince Vaughn continues to stain his CV, this time as a failing businessman on a mirth-free trip to Berlin
  
  

Vince Vaughn in Unfinished Business
Vince Vaughn in Unfinished Business: ‘a poundshop Adam Sandler’. Photograph: Jessica Miglio

Jesus wept, Vince Vaughn has done it again – kicking the putrefying corpse of feel-bad scrotal comedy around our screens with the dead-eyed stare of the fiscally medicated. Reuniting with Québécois director Ken Scott (who teased a maginally-less-throttleable-than-usual performance from him in Delivery Man) Vaughn plays failing business/family-man Dan Trunkman, chasing a make-or-break deal that takes him to Berlin in the scenic midst of Oktoberfest, the G8 summit, the Berlin marathon, and a gay fetish festival. Imagine the hilarity! In tow are Dan’s dorky associates: Tom Wilkinson depressingly downshifting as an ageing lothario with dreams of having wheelbarrow-position sex; and Dave Franco going full Forrest Gump as a tooth-grating Rain Man-y sidekick.

While Sienna Miller cracks wise about ex facie ejaculation and Nick Frost sticks his cock through a public toilet glory hole, back home in St Louis maudlin life lessons are being learned about bullying at school and the difficulties of being an overweight teenager. It’s ghastly, headachey fare, like a hangover (or, more precisely, like The Hangover) but without the fun drunken bit first. Honestly, the News at Ten has more laughs, not to mention fewer cock-and-ball gags. As for Vaughn, he has become a poundshop Adam Sandler, and that’s not a phrase I use lightly. Unfinished? Enough!

Unfinished Business trailer
 

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