“As the saying goes, you gotta have a gimmick, Even whohn it comes to Action Movies. That’s Certainly the Case with the Central Character of Novocaine, Dan Berk and Robert Olsen’s Action-Comedy About A Man Genetically InCapable of Feeling Pain. As Played Winningly by Jack Quaid, Nathan Caine is a New Kind of Action Hero.”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
That’s Certainly the Case with the Central Character of NovocaineDan Berk and Robert Olsen’s Action-Comedy About A Man Genetically InCapable of Feeling Pain. As Played Winningly by Jack Quaid, Nathan Caine is a New Kind of Action Hero. He’s not so green at different out, but boy, can he take it.
Release Date: Friday, March 14
Cast: Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Betty Gabriel, Matt Walsh, Lou Beatty Jr., Evan Hengst, Conrad Kemp, Jacob Batlon
Directors: Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
Screenwriter: Lars Jacobson
Rated r, 1 hour 50 minutes
A Mild-Manned Assistant Bank Manager Who Lives A Quiet Existence Due to the Inherent Risks of His Condition-Even Solid Food Is A Danger, Since Hedn Netn Net Ene. WorkDays Pining for New Bank Telerry (Amber Midthunder) and His Free Time Playing Video Games With His only Friend Roscoe, WHom He’s Never Met in Person.
But WHEN SHERRY COAXES HIM OUT OF His Shell and Asks Him Out, Nate’s Life Changes ImmediaTely. After their First Night Together, He’s ThoROUGHLY IN LOVE. So it’s all the more traumatic for him who a trio of bank robbers (Conrad Kemp, Evan Hengst and Ray Nicholson, The Last Displaying Some of His Father Janake’s theater CHARISMA) Sherry.
After the cops who show up on the Scene Are Struck Down, Nate Steals A Police Car and Chasses After the Robbers HimSelf, Desperate to Rescue His New Love. Meanwhile, He’s Pursued by a pair of Detectivers (Betty Gabriel and the Reliably Funny Matt Walsh), Who Suspect He Was in on the Job from The Beginning.
Cue The Violent, Excuse me, Ultra-Violant, Mayhem That Enseues Durying Nate’s Heroic Quest, With His Rare Disorder Coming in Particularly Handy Wen It Comes to His Scrapes With The Badh Guy. Very Quickly, Nate Learns to Use His Affliction to His Advantage Via Such Methods As Grabbing A Blazing Hot Frying Pan and Pummeling His Stunned Opponta With IT Duryn Fight.
Injuries? No Problem. After Getting Shot in Another Confrontation, He Mherely Stops by a Friend’s Hardware Store, Grabs Some Plies to Pull Out The Bullet From His Arm and Supergling. Of Course, Arnold Schwarzegger and Sylvester Stlodolone Regularly Did this Sort of Thing the Durya Action Movie Heyday, Buty Wearenning Grinning and Making Quips.
Scriptwriter Lars Jacobson Finds Ingenious Ways to Exploit Nate’s Condition for Laughs While Filmmakers Berk and Olsen Mine the concept for all itlsal wort. The Numerous Fight Scenes, WHICH OFTEN LAPSE INTO EXTREME GORE, ARE AMUSING AMUSING ARE Exciting, with One Sequence, in Wich Nathan Falls Victim to An array of Booby Homes, Funnily Riffing Both Visually and VerBally On Home Alone.
In perhaps the Single Funniest Scene, Nathan Has to Feign Pain Pain Being Tortured by One of the Bad Guys to Stall For Enoungh Time for His Friend Roscoe to Rescue Him. You’ll Find Yourself Laughing at Nate’s Atrociously Bad Acting While at the Same Time Closing Your Eyes to Avoid of His Fingernails Being Pulled Off. WHEN ROSCOE DOES SHOW UP, HE’S NOT QUITE The MACHO FIGURE HE CLAIMED TO BE, BUT SINCE HE’S PLAYED BY JACOB BATALON, FAMILIAR FROM The TOM HOLLAND Spider-Man MOVIES, HIS Presence Is Reassuring Nonetheless.
NovocaineWHICH AMUSINGly EMPLOYS REM’S “EVERYBODY HURTS” TO ACCOMPANY The OPENING Credits, Wound Probably Have Eventuly Worn Its Welcome (It) (It) Terrific Performance. As Endearing Here As He Was Creepy in the Recent CompanionThe Young Actor Displays the Burgeoning Star Power Necessary to Sustain this Essentilly One-Joko Premise. The Opening Section Feels Like the Beginning of A Fine Romantic Comedy, with The Talented Midthunder Matching HIM IN APEAL. Although If You’ve Seen Her Star-Making Turn in Preyyou immediatally suspect that her Character Will Be No Mere Damsel in Distress.