Vince Vaughn is finally taking his own advice. He’s doubling down.
In Swingers, the movie that made Vaughn a star, he famously tells his blackjack-playing friend (played by future Star Wars and Marvel director Jon Favreau), “You always double down on 11.” Well, it must be 11 somewhere, because the Wedding Crashers and Freaky star is doubling down on the number of roles he’s playing in a new time-traveling gangster action comedy.
The movie is called Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice, which is a little confusing until you see the just-released trailer. In it, Vaughn plays a gangster named Nick who, along with his friend Mike (James Marsden), attempts to correct a very terrible night involving a woman they love, named Alice (Eiza González). This correction involves time travel, so there are two Nicks in the movie. Hence, the title. It’ll make more sense when you watch the very fun trailer, which is unfortunately age-restricted because of some language and violence, but it’s nothing too wild.
We basically love any time-travel movie because it makes everything so unpredictable. Even a bad movie, if it has some time travel in it, usually isn’t all that bad. But here, writer-director BenDavid Grabinski (who did the awesome Scott Pilgrim Takes Off series) puts that structure on a gangster movie, which is also an action movie as well as a comedy. That’s a pretty unique genre mash-up, but it sure seems like it works.
Especially because the titular characters are just the beginning of what is a stellar cast. In addition to Vaughn, Marsden, and González, there’s Keith David (The Thing), Jimmy Tatro (Scream 7), Stephen Root (Office Space), Lewis Tan (Mortal Kombat), Ben Schwartz (Parks and Recreation), Emily Hampshire (Schitt’s Creek), and Arturo Castro (Tron: Ares). Not too shabby.
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice has its premiere at South by Southwest later this month, ahead of its debut on Hulu on March 27. Yes, it’s a Hulu exclusive. Which is a bit of a bummer. But we thought the same thing about Prey, too, didn’t we?
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