Too many fans seem to be blown away

I saw this movie before reading any reviews, and I thought it was very funny. I was very surprised to see the overwhelmingly negative reviews this film received from critics.

Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Dan Trunkman (Vince Vaughn) refuses to take a 5% pay cut from his boss Chuck Portnoy (Sienna Miller). He starts his own company to compete against them. In the parking lot, he meets Timothy McWinters (Tom Wilkinson) and Mike Pancake (Dave Franco). McWinters has been forced to retire due to age. Pancake failed in his job interview. A year later, the threesome is still struggling. They expect to close a big deal in Portland. Dan's chubby loner son is being bullied and he needs money for private school. He is shocked to find that Jim Spinch (James Marsden) has brought Chuck in to also pitch for the deal. Jim has a relationship with her. Bill Whilmsley (Nick Frost) works for Jim.This is not funny. Vaughn is too angry to be funny. Franco's idiot character is too annoying. Wilkinson is one of the greatest actors around but he's not funny in this. The movie needs to explain what their business is actually. It's a lot of meaningless talk. All of it adds up to nothing funny and rather boring.

Tired of playing second-fiddle to his obnoxious boss, businessman Dan Trunkman quits and forms his own competing mineral sales firm. He takes a retiring associate and a dim-witted sales applicant with him. After a year and a half of struggle, a promising deal is in sight, but promptly folds, thanks to Dan's ex-boss. Determined to save the deal, Dan and company fly to Germany, where a series of outrageous obstacles awaits.........Given the body of work that Vaughn has given us over the past ten years, you would think that this would be a straight forward, Hall Pass type of movie, where the three main characters get up to nothing but hi-jinks and party hard all the time.But it's nothing like that, in fact, it's quite a depressing movie about three people who go for broke, and have a moment of self realisation halfway through the second act.Wilkinson plays the miserable older chap who hates his wife, life, and just wants to do something special for once. Franco plays the joker of the bunch, always making mistakes and causing havoc, but them there is a revaluation about him having some sort of learning difficulty, and it sours the humour that he was suppose to provide before this, and after.And then there's Vaughn. The usual cocky character has long gone from the likes of that one where he was sarcastic about someone, and we are left with someone who looks like he has a permanent hangover.The humour isn't there, and the desperation of the characters only makes the humour all the more detrimental to the films narrative, and there is also an awful subplot involving his son being bullied, any decent human being would go back to reality, not chase their desperations.Add Nick Frost in a worthless role, and Marsden and Miller there for the cash, and you have a really strange movie that is neither funny, nor dramatic, just existing.....

It started out kind of slowly, but only because I was rooting for VV's character, and of course everything was going wrong for him. Which is good as far as a story line goes, as it helps you bond with the characters. However, the comedic scenes kept building up, balancing the down moments, making for an enjoyable movie. Dave Franco was a trip, played his part very well as did Tom Wilkinson. I am biased, as I love Vince Vaughn, so he pulled me right in there with him. He has the ability to do that, and this movie is no different. There are some hilarious scenes and a good moral of the story ending. My husband about choked from laughing so hard. Highly recommend for an entertaining movie.

I love gratuitousness in comedies. Movies like Harold & Kumar push the envelope so far as to what's appropriate to laugh at that it just becomes absurdly entertaining. I also love comedy in my comedies. Sadly, Vince Vaughn's latest alleged comedy Unfinished Business has all the gratuitousness you could ever want, but falls short on the funny.It is intermittently amusing. And by that I mean a few moments make you smile, chuckle even, due to the ridiculousness of the situation they're in. The cast - Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, and Tom Wilkinson - are fine. Nick Frost also has a small role, which should have been fleshed out because he has the most entertaining parts of the movie. The problem is the material just isn't good. The writing is choppy, uneven, and distractingly terrible. It would've been better for the cast to improv for an hour-and-a-half, that would at least be entertaining. The story here tries to tie together an explicit raunchy comedy with a homely family drama and a vain attempt at a business narrative that revolves completely around "the handshake." It just makes no sense, from a cohesion standpoint and a movie-making standpoint - how on earth was this green-lit? Who was the audience for this? Certainly not kids, definitely not adults. Who thought this was a good idea?It's a shame because I really like Vince Vaughn. He is fine in the movie, as is the rest of the cast, but they have absolutely nothing to work with. Throwing all the boobs and penises in the world on screen does not make a good comedy. At the end of the day, Unfinished Business should have been left unfinished.