March 19, 2025
Since he was a child, Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid) has been diagnosed with a rare neurologic condition called CIPA or congenital insensitivity to pain with anhidrosis. Because of this, Nathan's parents had been very overprotective with him, not even allowing to eat solid food for fear that he could already be chewing his tongue off without him feeling it. He had been an easy target for bullies in school, who called him the nickname of "Novocaine."
Presently, Nathan is working as the assistant manager of a bank in San Diego. He had grown up to be so much of an introvert. After work, he went straight home and did not have any friends. The only other person with who he had any interaction was Roscoe (Jacob Batalon), the guy he played online games with, whom he had not met in person. When his pretty co-worker crush Sherry (Amber Midthunder) invited him out, he got very flustered.
Jack Quaid is the son of Dennis Quaid and Meg Ryan. I first knew him from his breakthrough role in the series "The Boys" (2019) as Hughie Campbell, the most sensible, most techie member of the vigilante team. His role as Nathan Caine has shades of Hughie as well because of his inexperience when it comes to fights and violence. His Nathan is dorky and delightful even in the face of danger, the perfect action-comedy hero.
Ray Nicholson, who plays Simon, a crazy goon who had no qualms about killing people, the main antagonist. He has the crazy eyes of his more famous father Jack Nicholson, but too bad his character here is one-dimensional evil, so did not really showcase much range. It was so much fun to see Jacob Batalon beyond being Peter Parker's best friend. He definitely stole every scene he was in, well, being Nathan Caine's best friend.
With violent bank robbers holding their bank up, writer Lars Jacobson threw Nathan into an adventure that was going to put him into so many painful situations that he will never feel. Directorial team of Dan Berk and Robert Olsen concocted a series of grimace-inducing injuries to be inflicted on Nathan which he may not feel, but we definitely will feel them on his behalf. Of course, they seem to have forgotten that painful or not, injuries are still injuries. 7/10
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