2 Vince Vaughns for the price of one. Capisce?

For a gangster movie to feature characters who don’t know what chloroform is or who Winnie the Pooh is or what a comeuppance is, it sure is pretty screwy. Looking at the title “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice,” I was thinking back to this bad gangster comedy from 30 years ago called “Mad Dog Time,” which used names like Mick, Vic, and Nick as play on words. That movie made Roger Ebert’s Most Hated Movies list for the way it had trigger happy gangsters killing others on repeat, for its desperate choice of comedy, and for its wasted potential. 30 years later, I think we can agree “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice” is the better gangster comedy of sorts.

It’s another Vince Vaughn comedy to deliver the goods like “Old School,” “Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story,” or “Wedding Crashers,” except we get two of them thanks to the gangster genre entering time travel territory. No thanks to Doc Brown or Mr. Peabody, of course. And he looks damn good in both a turtleneck and a suit and tie.

Here’s the concept: the respected gangster Nick (Vaughn) asks Quick Draw Mike to do one last job before he calls it quits from the gangster life: a job that requires him to abduct apparently Nick (there’s that second Vaughn). The Nick who told Mike to do that is from the future thanks to a computer nerd (Ben Schwartz) who used his money to build a time machine. Mike is framed for getting the crime lord Sosa’s (Keith David) adopted son Jimmy Boy (Jimmy Tatro) sent to prison, and the old man has been vowing revenge ever since. And Nick’s wife and Mike’s lover Alice (Eiza Gonzalez) is also in the middle of this, and surprised that he and Nick both have Nick.

When asked about what happens if past Nick gets killed, it’s best that future Nick doesn’t find out. I think we know what would happen, after seeing “Looper” or “The Adam Project.” And did I forget to mention that the time machine Future Nick came from has been obliterated? No? Well, there are no do-overs or the time warps that Sam Rockwell placed himself in “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die.”

There’s a bit too much in the plot for me to stay completely focused, but there’s a lot to look forward to in “Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice.” You can start with its sense of style. There’s a lot of motion blurred effects, I suppose to heighten the style of the action sequences. And songs performed by the Chemical Brothers, Thin Lizzy, and Andrew W.K. really hypes up the adrenaline rush.

Vaughn delivers in a dual role as himself from the future and present. Marsden is also comical and charming, when he doesn’t know what that stuff that puts people to sleep is called. They each have chemistry with Gonzalez, who handles the sudden appearance of the second Vaughn in much better hands than how an amateur actress would. And I like how the father-son relationship between David and Tatro is handled, especially when he explains to the young man how he adopted him. It’s all within the dialogue and reaction.

We also get other names like Dolph Lundgren (looking almost like either Judge Doom or Arnold Toht) and Stephen Root (looking almost like his Milton character from “Office Space”) in the mix, and only one of them could be the cannibal hitman known as the Barron. After all, nobody knows what he looks like or how old he is.

“Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice” is written and directed with timing by BenDavid Grabinski, whose background includes lesser known action films like “Skiptrace” and “Happily” and developing the 2019 revival of “Are You Afraid of the Dark.” He’s one of the many filmmakers to go for that Tarantino style, and here, he merges both gangsters and time travel in one comedy without repeating the same scenes or relying on the same old trigger happy conclusions. It knows when to save its bullets.

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