Made (2001)

Nobody natters like Vince Vaughn. In the bumptiously amusing Made, which reteams the tall, dark, and hambone actor with Jon Favreau, his costar from Swingers, Vaughn plays Ricky, a screwup who never shuts up. He's a chatterbox noodge, a walking deadbeat irritant whose machine-gun patter is matched only by his obliviousness. Ricky and his buddy, Bobby (Favreau), land a freelance mob assignment, and though they have no idea what the task involves, it does mean a trip to New York, complete with fancy hotel and on-call limo. Vaughn, jiving and winking as only a jaw-dropping loser can, makes Ricky a full-fledged comic creation -- a failed cool jerk whose entire, unconscious purpose in life is to talk his way into trouble.

Written and directed by Favreau, Made is little more than a rambling chain of combative-buddy mishaps, but the interplay between Vaughn and Favreau, who does great double takes of thrusting-chin frustration, spins you through the weak patches. So does Sean Combs, as a mobster with zero patience for Ricky's antics. In his first feature role, Combs has a volatile coal-eyed magnetism.

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