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‘Novocaine’ Review: An Obscure Medical Condition Turns Jack Quaid Into World’s Unlikeliest John Wick
Only a high-concept Hollywood screenwriter could take a disorder that feels no pain and make it the defining feature for a mild-mannered vigilante.
He drinks his meals through a straw, so as not to bite his tongue; puts tennis balls on sharp corners to avoid bruising; and sets an alarm to signal regular bathroom breaks, lest his bladder burst. This is where Berk and Olsen demonstrate two things: They’re willing to get ultra-violent — as when one of the robbers, Simon (Ray Nicholson), splatters the bank manager’s brains on Sherry’s face — but they’re not the most intuitive orchestrators of action. That’s the reference they have in mind when Nathan shows up at one of the robbers’ heavily booby-trapped home, taking a crossbow bolt to the thigh and a spiked medieval flail in the back.
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