Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice

MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE 🔫 (2026)

Three of my favourite genres are comedy, gangster flicks, and time-travel movies—so the second I heard about MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE, a movie bold (or reckless) enough to mash all three together, it shot straight to the top of my watchlist.

Mike (James Marsden) wants out of the gangster life, but his partner Nick (Vince Vaughn) pulls him back in for one last job: make sure Mike doesn’t die at their boss’s son’s just-got-out-of-prison party. Simple enough, except Nick is from the future, and the only person who can help them is Alice (Eiza González), the woman they’re both in love with.

From there, the movie goes completely off the rails, in a mostly fun way.

It’s a full-on throwback to ’90s camp action-comedies, the kind of movie that feels like it time-traveled here by accident. It’s messy, loud, and unapologetically weird, and for a while, it really works.

I was fully on board for the first half. The Ben Schwartz opening is a great hook, the premise is just the right kind of ridiculous, and Jimmy Tatro shows up swinging as a wannabe Conor McGregor knockoff—dumb, chaotic, and weirdly hilarious. But the longer it goes, the more the movie starts chasing emotional weight it hasn’t quite earned. The shift isn’t terrible, it just dulls the exact chaos that makes the movie fun in the first place.

The random slow-motion bits don’t help either. They feel less like stylistic choices and more like the movie accidentally parodying itself, torn between being a joke and trying to say something deeper about this love-triangle, death-defying scramble. Still, this has “lazy Sunday cult classic” written all over it. It’s the kind of movie where you can already picture certain scenes living on as clips, completely detached from the rest of the chaos.

I respect the swing. But as fun as “comedy + gangster + time travel” sounds on paper, actually pulling it off is a whole different challenge—and this one doesn’t quite stick the landing. 

Enjoy!

5.7/10 🍿 🎥

Runtime: 1hr47mins

Where: World Premiere at the 2026 SXSW Film & TV Festival & Now Streaming on Disney+

The Richmond Reviewer Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice Review - March 26th, 2026.