Novocaine

Once you hear the premise, you want to believe that it will be used as an analogy about overcoming your weaknesses and turning them into strengths. Every disease is a superpower. But the superpower disease here is really just used to plunge our guy into more and more danger, have him live though it somehow, turn up the violence, and make him go another round. It’s like a hyper-violent, inexpensive version of Superman. Dennis and Meg’s nepo-baby Jack Quaid is a pretty good actor, and delivers his hapless banker everyman with ease and skill, despite a ridiculous conceit that belongs in a Jason Statham movie. Anyhoo, there’s plenty of killin’, so that’s neat.