NOVOCAINE

What You Need To Know:

NOVOCAINE is a comic thriller set in San Diego. Assistant Bank Manager Nate Caine has a medical condition that makes him impervious to pain. Nate and a pretty bank teller named Sherry have just had their first date and things went well. However, the next day, three masked bank robbers hold up the bank. One of them murders the bank manager and threatens Sherry to get Nate to open the bank vault. He also murders a few policemen outside the bank. Nate takes one of the cop cars and speeds after the two getaway cars. A surprise twist complicates Nate’s efforts to save Sherry. Also, the robber who murdered the bank manager is a real psychopath.

NOVOCAINE is exciting and funny. It gives viewers a real roller-coaster ride. Also, the hero risks life and limb to save the woman he loves. However, NOVOCAINE has lots of strong gratuitous foul language and some cringe-inducing intense violence. For example, the hero sticks his hand into a fryer of burning oil to grab a robber’s gun. So, MOVIEGUIDE® finds NOVOCAINE excessive and unacceptable.

Content:

(CC, BB, PP, CapCap, LLL, VVV, S, N, A, MM):

Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:
Strong Christian, redemptive, moral worldview in comic thriller set during Christmas where man who can’t feel pain risks life and limb to save woman he loves from bank robbers, one of whom is a vicious psychopath, plus police are viewed in a positive manner, as is a bank establishment and its employees;

Foul Language:
At least 98 obscenities (including at least 70 “f” words), three profanities using the name of Jesus, two GD profanities, 14 light profanities, and man vomits after killing a bank robber in self-defense;

Violence:
Some very strong and strong violence includes a bank robber cruelly shoots a bank manager dead point blank, robbers take female hostage, lots of intense fighting, hero fights bank robber in alley then fights him in restaurant kitchen, hero and robber hit one another with objects, hero reaches into frying oil to retrieve gun and shoot robber, villain knocks hero into mirror and hero sticks shards onto his hands to scrape the villain’s face, villain tries to strangle hero, ball with spikes on it and attached to a rope swings into hero’s back, hero’s friend throws a knife to hero but the knife impales the hero’s right hand, and he uses knife to stab the villain he’s fighting, villain threatens to kill his sister;

Sex:
Implied fornication in one scene when unmarried woman visits unmarried man’s apartment, and they start kissing before camera cuts away from them;

Nudity:
Upper male nudity in one scene;

Alcohol Use:
Brief alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:
No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:
Bank robbery, kidnapping, resisting arrest, hero disobeys police orders and goes to save his new girlfriend from murderous bank robbers, lying, manipulation, hero “borrows” police car to save kidnapped woman being driven away in getaway car.

More Detail:

NOVOCAINE is a comic thriller about an assistant bank manager with a medical condition that makes him impervious to pain, who risks life and limb to rescue a female bank teller, who’s been kidnapped by three murderous bank robbers. NOVOCAINE has some pretty funny and exciting parts with some surprisingly heartfelt moments, but the movie has lots of strong foul language and some cringe-inducing extreme violence that drop NOVOCAINE into the excessive, unacceptable box.

The movie opens with bank accountant Nathan Caine getting ready for work. At work, Nate has long had a crush on a pretty young bank teller named Sherry. Nate is a reclusive video game nerd and homebody. He and Sherry have lunch together where Sherry tries to draw him out of his shell. She’s surprised to learn that Nate can’t eat solid foods because he has a medical condition that makes him impervious to feeling pain. For example, he can’t take a bite of her pie at the diner they go to because he might bite off his tongue.

They make a date to attend Sherry’s new art gallery show. However, when he takes her there, he runs into the guy who used to bully him in high school because of his condition. The bully and his friends used to call Nate “Novocaine,” a play on his last name.

The next day at the bank, three masked bank robbers hold up the bank. One of them murders the bank manager and threatens Sherry to get Nate to open the bank vault. The police soon arrive, however, and the robbers take Sherry hostage to escape in two cars while shooting two police officers.

Nate takes one of the cop’s cars and speeds after the car with Sherry in it. He spends the rest of the day trying to save Sherry. He enlists the help of a guy who plays online video games with him. A surprise twist complicates Nate’s effort. There’s also the problem of the guy who killed the bank manager. He’s a real psychopath.

NOVOCAINE is exciting and funny. Also, the hero risks life and limb to save the girl he loves. So, there are many twists and turns to the plot, including the big twist in the middle, which changes everything for Nate and Sherry. Will true love prevail? Assuming, of course, that both Nate and Sherry survive the day.

That said, NOVOCAINE has lots of strong foul language and some painful looking violence. For instance, in one scene, Nate fights one of the robbers in a restaurant kitchen. During the fight, Nate knocks the robber’s gun into a small vat of frying oil. Carrying a knife, the robber then comes at Nate. So, to save his life, Nate sticks his hand into the burning oil to grab the gun and kill the robber. Also, one scene implies that the romantic couple sleeps together.

The gratuitous foul language and some of the violence in NOVOCAINE are extreme. So, MOVIEGUIDE® ultimately finds the movie excessive and unacceptable.


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