MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE
Time Enough for Making Things Right
What You Need To Know
MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE is a comical gangster movie on Disney+ where a mob assassin accidentally commits a manslaughter that causes him to repent, go back in time and correct a mistake he made in framing another mob assassin who was sleeping with his estranged wife, but many comical and violent complications ensue. MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE has some hilarious twists, plus a rather redemptive story that extols repentance and sacrifice, but it has constant strong foul language throughout and, while fighting the mob, the “heroes” decide to solve the movie’s plot problem with extreme violence.
The movie opens with a black mob boss, Sosa, welcoming the return of his adopted son, Jimmy Boy, from prison. Sosa plans an extravagant party for Jimmy Boy, with three after parties!
Meanwhile, a mob assassin nicknamed Quick Draw Mike, played by James Marsden, has arranged a hotel rendezvous with Alice (Eiza Gonzáles), the wife of another mob assassin, Nick, played by Vince Vaughn. Though Nick and Alice’s marriage has been on the fritz for a long time, Nick has found out about Alice’s love affair with Mike. So, out of revenge, he’s framed Mike as the man who betrayed Sosa’ son and sent him to prison, even though he knows another mobster did it. Sosa has called a third mob assassin, who likes to cannibalize his victims, to kill Mike during the party.
However, before the party for Sosa’s son begins, Nick accidentally kills the inventor of a time machine whom Alice had helped get funding from the mob. Instantly regretting the fatal accident, Nick has a total change of heart and decides to use the time machine to stop Mike from being killed and to find a way to stop the inventor’s accidental death.
Nick’s plan seems sound, but all sorts of comical complications ensue.
MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE has some hilarious, entertaining twists. Also, the movie has a rather redemptive story that extols repentance and sacrifice. Three characters repent and turn away from their criminal lifestyles. Also, two of those three characters actually risk and even sacrifice their lives for other people.
Sadly, however, the movie’s protagonists, who are trying to right some wrongs, eventually decide they must solve the movie’s final major plot problem with extreme violence. Thus, the movie’s third act includes constant violence. MIKE & NICK & NICK & ALICE also has lots of strong, almost constant foul language. So, the movie is excessive and ultimately unacceptable.
The Content Guide
The specifics — spoilers included by nature — so you can judge for your own family.
Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements
Strong mixed pagan worldview set in a dark word of gangsters where three character repent from the lives of crime and two character risk and even sacrifice their lives for another person, but
Foul Language
At least 170 obscenities (including at least 125 “f” words), three Jesus profanities, seven GD profanities, and four light profanities
Violence
Lots of bloody, very strong and strong violence includes a large fight with many gun battles and much fighting in the second half, many people are shot dead or sometimes impaled, bullet blows a large hole in an assassin’s head, that assassin is said to eat his victims after he kills them, men engage in a lengthy an brutal combat sequence inside a living room, a man accidentally shoots another man dead when he’s unexpectedly startled but regrets it and tries to make things right
Sex
No bedroom or fornication sex scenes, but a criminal is having an affair with another criminal’s estranged wife, but the other criminal repents from his life of crime and decides to let his wife go, and a young ex-convict suddenly and comically becomes impotent when a friend tells him that his best years as a young man and playboy were taken away from him when he was put into prison, and the ex-convict’s gangster father enlists several women to have an orgy with his son. who just got out of prison, but the son can’t perform because of his friend’s comment, and, in another scene, he doesn’t enjoy a lap dance
Nudity
Rear female nudity in one scene and brief upper male nudity, plus women with revealing clothing attend a wild party
Alcohol Use
Some alcohol use, especially at a raucous party
Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse
Some smoking and brief cocaine use;
Miscellaneous Immorality
Criminal has framed another criminal but regrets his action and tries to make things right.
