An average movie

To be honest, I wasn’t expecting much from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved and since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, the damned thing turned out to be pretty lame, that’s for sure. Basically, I always thought that ‘Jerry Maguirre’ was a decent flick but not much more than that and this movie was basically a very tedious ‘Jerry Maguirre’ rip-off. Concerning Vince Vaughn, sure, I will admit that the guy did deliver some fun comedies at some point in his career but it is rather sad that, almost 20 years later, he is still playing basically the same character and his shtick has become seriously stale in the meantime. Furthermore, his approach for this movie never really worked. Indeed, because of the way he played his character, I never felt any stress or pressure when, considering the circumstances, the guy should have been a nervous wreck. Concerning the jokes, well, most of them were pretty weak and, even though I saw the movie only yesterday, I can’t remember a single one which was actually really funny. I do remember that there was quite a lot of topless nudity, even a couple of penises, which basically shows how desperate the makers were to get the attention of their audience. The sub-plots involving the kids of the main character were also terribly half-baked and pathetic. Indeed, even though this movie was dealing with a workaholic who was basically never at home, at the end of the movie, he was still hailed as a great father because he had a couple of really uninspired Facetime chats with his kids. Anyway, to conclude, the damned thing was pretty much a waste of time for myself and all the people involved so I think you should avoid it.