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.
Director: Ken Scott
Writer: Steve Conrad
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Storyline
A hard-working small business
owner (Vince Vaughn) and his two associates (Tom Wilkinson, Dave Franco) 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 imaginable - and unimaginable
- way, including unplanned stops at a massive sex fetish event and a global
economic summit.
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User Reviews
"Unfinished Business"
is a landmark film for one reason and one reason only, and it's the first
directorial effort by Ken Scott that doesn't have a plot or a title related to
sperm. After directing both the Canadian film "Starbuck" and the
American remake "Delivery Man," Scott has set his sights on another
subject that, unfortunately, gets bogged down by not only its dirty-minded
tendencies but its directionless comedy and narrative as well. "Unfinished
Business" is a miserably unfunny film, lumbering from one situation to the
next in a stumblebum fashion, making ninety minutes out to be an absolutely
laborious affair on all counts.
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The film focuses on Daniel
Trunkman (Vince Vaughn), who quits his job after his boss Chuck Portnoy (Sienna
Miller) tries to make him accept a five percent pay deduction. Just before
walking out, he proclaims to his former coworkers that he is working on
starting his own business and that anyone who wants to work for a fairer, more
honest company should follow him out the door. He's followed by Timothy
McWinters (Tom Wilkinson), an elderly man who was also just let go, and Mike
Pancake (Dave Franco), a quirky, shy youngster who was interviewing for the
business that same day. We fast-forward one year later, seeing the three as
broke and clueless as when they started, with their only hope of achieving some
income after two stagnant months is a trip to Europe to close the business deal
they need in order to continue. Daniel keeps reiterating time and time again
that the agreement is only a "handshake" away, but, as expected, and
this goes without saying, a load of ridiculous bawdiness follows them overseas
and they are left with their own wits and ridiculousness to try and make this
deal work.
You may be asking yourself what
business are these men in, what is their company about, and what does this
insurmountable business deal consist of? You're not alone, reader; I was asking
the very same questions while watching the film. Writer Steve Conrad (the same
man who penned "The Pursuit of Happiness" and "The
Promotion," which detailed something similar to this story in a more
entertaining and empathetic way) dances around these ideas, with Daniel, at one
point in the film, saying him and his two coworkers are in the business of
selling "swarf," or the stray metal shavings that turn up in mass
amounts following the construction of a building, a bridge, or some other
societal necessity. After that point is established, none the previous
questions get answered. The three men talk about how revolutionary this business
deal is if it goes through, but nobody takes the time to explain its effects,
the monetary impact, what the three men have been doing for the past year while
their business sinks like a rock, and so on.
Conrad engages in some of the
laziest screen writing I've seen, not only in a narrative sense where nothing
is explained or elaborated on, but in the sense that the film never manages to
be funny. It lumbers through sight gags and attempts at humor that are so
frequently dead-on-arrival I wanted to check the film for a pulse. The only
performer on hand that seems to be trying to create some level of character is
Dave Franco, an actor I've appreciated in his last few film roles as a goofy
soul who can play both clueless but confident or clueless and intimidated very
well. Here, he's the latter, and he's often fun when he's responding so
nervously to Daniel's requests or must recite his full name (which isn't funny,
but the film keeps trying to assert that it is) in the middle of a meeting.
With that, "Unfinished
Business" packs nothing but an exhausting array of failed jokes and an
empty plot that its caricatures certainly can't rebound and its
writing/directing team sure can't save once the cameras begin rolling. To the
surprise of some, I'm sure, I defended the last two major raunchy comedies that
have been released to theaters, "Hot Tub Time Machine 2" and
"The Wedding Ringer," respectively, crediting them for doing their
job in not only making me laugh but packing in a little extra something to their
formula. "Unfinished Business" is so broken and empty that it can't
pack anything extra into its story or formula because there's already so little
there. It works as a perfect juxtaposition to the characters' company in the
film, as it's a trainwreck that has an audience and nothing more.
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