NOVOCAINE
Head over heels — Jack Quaid as Nathan;
Run for your life;
Quaid with Amber Midthunder as Shari.
NO PAIN, SOME GAIN FOR JACK QUAID
★★★
OUT NOW / CERT 15 / 110 MINS
DIRECTORS Dan Berk, Robert Olsen
CAST Jack Quaid, Amber Midthunder, Ray Nicholson, Jacob Batalon, Betty Gabriel
PLOT Nathan (Quaid) — who can feel no pain — embarks on a rescue mission when bank robbers kidnap the girl of his dreams (Midthunder).
“MEET NATHAN CAINE. He can’t feel pain.” As far as poster taglines go, that is an all-timer: neatly and succinctly boiling down a zany high concept into seven simple words. For yes, Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid) has congenital insensitivity to pain, a condition that comes in very handy when he inadvertently finds himself in an action-comedy film. In its outlandish premise tailor-made for wacky genre mishaps, it shares some ingredients with the nutty 2006