Vince Vaughn is asleep on the job in tired comedy Unfinished Business

THERE is only one that is more tired than Vince Vaughn’s new movie. And that is Vaughn himself in Unfinished Business.

Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson and Dave Franco in Unfinished Business.

Unfinished Business (MA15+)

Director: Ken Smart (Delivery Man)

Starring: Vince Vaughn, Dave Franco, Tom Wilkinson, Nick Frost.

Rating: *1/2

You Vince some, and you’ll lose some

There is only one thing I can possibly think of that is more tired than Vince Vaughn’s new movie.

And that is Vince Vaughn in his new movie. Dude looks like he hasn’t slept since Wedding Crashers.

I guess if you suddenly remembered you’d subjected the public to past comic calamities such as Fred Claus, The Dilemma and The Internship, you’d be a-tossin’ and a-turnin’ for nights on end as well.

The weird thing about Unfinished Business, however, is that if you didn’t know it was supposed to be a comedy, it would almost pass muster as a rather creepy contemporary drama.

Vaughn plays Dan Trunkman, a corporate dealmaker of some skill who gets in a dispute with the bean counters at head office.

Making good on his threat to start his own company, Dan and his two-man sales force are soon up to their ears in bad debts. If the trio don’t land the next contract coming their way, it is all over for everyone in the worst possible way.

Unimpressive ... Vince Vaughn, Tom Wilkinson and Dave Franco in Unfinished Business.

Dan’s neglected kids won’t be able to go to private school. Dan’s second-in-command, a cagey old finance fox named Timothy (Tom Wilkinson), won’t be able to divorce his unattractive (and possibly morbidly obese) spouse.

Under-qualified company intern Mike (Dave Franco) — who sometimes faintly hints he may actually be intellectually impaired — will have to return to his former job as a shopping mall sneaker vendor.

As you may have gathered by now, Vaughn and his castmates would have to be brandishing defibrillators hooked up to a nuclear reactor to force a pulse into material this lifeless.

With Vaughn virtually asleep on the job throughout, his two very uncomfortable-looking castmates are hardly going to step in and save the day.

Wilkinson, a widely-respected thesp around the world, never recovers from an early scene where he must petition an elderly house maid to reveal her breasts as she tidies his room.

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