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CHICAGO – Patrick McDonald of HollywoodChicago.com appears on “The Morning Mess” with Dan Baker on WBGR-FM (Monroe, Wisconsin) on March 21st, 2024, reviewing the new streaming series “Manhunt” – based on the bestseller by James L. Swanson – currently streaming on Apple TV+.
Film Review: ‘Unfinished Business’ is an Unfunny Vocation
Submitted by PatrickMcD on March 6, 2015 - 6:27pm
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”Unfinished Business” opens everywhere on March 6th. Featuring Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Tom Wilkinson, Sienna Miller, James Marsden and Nick Frost. Written by Steve Conrad. Directed by Ken Scott. Rated “R”
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Dan (Vince Vaughn), Timothy (Tom Wilkinson) and Mike (Dave Franco) in ‘Unfinished Business’
Photo credit: 20th Century Fox
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CHICAGO – Have you ever seen a film where they throw everything against a wall to see what sticks? The appropriately titled “Unfinished Business” is a throwing machine, taking the flimsy premise of a business trip and using it as an excuse for a splattering of jokes that mostly don’t work.
 Rating: 2.5/5.0 |
Vince Vaughn takes his hipster/flummoxed movie persona and becomes a Daddy figure, with the wifey at home, and two rug rats for use as punchlines. Yep, Vincent has gone domestic. Joining him is the requisite dopey assistant and old horny guy, which is reliable as a basis for jokes-that-don’t-score. This is a by the book mainstream comedy, with no originality and a foregone conclusion. When Vince Vaughn is portraying an underdog sales representative – yes, I said sales rep – and it doesn’t look like he’ll close the big deal, what do think will happen? It doesn’t take Alec Baldwin to tell us “coffee is for closers.”
Vaughn is Dan Trunkman, who at the beginning of the film is walking out of his sales job at a big company, because they cut his salary. As he leaves, he promises his rival named Chuck (it’s a woman, played by Sienna Miller) that he will start his own company. After recruiting the near-retiree Timothy (Tom Wilkinson) and dim bulb Mike (Dave Franco), he opens Apex Select.
Fast forward to one year later. The company is barely working at Dunkin Donuts (product placement alert!), but is on the cusp of a huge deal. The transaction is basically suppose to come down to a handshake, but the evil capitalist Jim (James Marsden) and his toadie Bill (Nick Frost) has brought in Chuck to counter the offer, and the Apex team must scramble from Maine to Germany to chase down their deal.
Continue reading for Patrick McDonald’s full review of “Unfinished Business”Dan (Vince Vaughn), Timothy (Tom Wilkinson) and Mike (Dave Franco) in ‘Unfinished Business’
Photo credit: 20th Century Fox
Continue reading for Patrick McDonald’s full review of “Unfinished Business”
