This article contains Massive spoilers for "Novokain".

Although the marketing campaign for Novokaine is generally quite clever (especially the art of the poster, which contains the main character and its numerous injuries shown in a style similar to the game "Operation"), it makes the film's plot to look as old as possible. One mildly driven every man, Nathan Kane, decides to chase some of the robbers of the bad guys, when, during the robbery, they kidnap the Loveum of his life, the storyteller of the Sice-Seed Sherry (Amber Mid. Going through the trailers and the TV alone, it seems that the only twist of such a tried-and-tested "hero saves the girl" is that Nathan suffering from a condition that does not allow him to feel pain, and despite lack of combat training, he can be reliably fighting and continuing to hit.

However, it turns out that "Novocain" has a few more tricks on the sleeve than just thatEspecially when it comes to encouraging the initial premise and dynamics of character. While Amber Midtunder may not be the household name (still), she has proven herself a far more capable, strong and clever actress than accepting Dumelsel's standard role in trouble. As it turns out, there is a lot more to Jerry than originally fills her eye: instead of being an innocent girl busy kidnapping, it has been discovered that she was in robbery all the time. The artist behind the crime, Simon (Ray Nicholson), is actually her foster brother, and her part of the plan was to seduce Nathan, the bank's assistant manager, to make him give the code to the bank's vault, and then it was supposed to be faxed by the robbers.

While this twist is nothing new for crime thrillers, the way it is used and deployed by screenwriter Lars Jacejkobson and directors Dan Berk and Robert Olsen allow Novokain to remind you of reminding Classic Hollywood Film Noir MoviesInstead of just being a direct action comedy. It is a twist that not only makes the film more layered and shaded, but also found it in reality, something that gives "Novocaine" the opportunity to have a reinforced genre cake and eat it.

Although it initially seemed as a basic action movie, "Novocain" is a bit of genre amalgam, mixtures of action, horror, comedy, romantic comedy and noir film in its Chinese stew. All of these ingredients are more than welcome because they give the film a depth and dimension that she would not have if her only trick was a man who could be hurt a lot (something that, as the film itself points out, is made in every film showing Wolverineand let's others). Particularly the romantic aspect of the comedy is crucial to the success of the film, as it allows the audience time to be for Inubi in Nathan and Jerry as characters (and as the young couple), enough that we long for to see them together.

Of course, when Jerry is revealed as a coat, it's a twist that brings extra weight with it. Not only does Give give her face new shading, it also changes Nathan's search for that of the knight of the knight in the Nor ESK Patty. This is because we, the audience, are early into the right colors of Jerry, but Nathan is not the case. Thus, the film must indulge Nathan's serious heroism, while his various injuries are much more indicated. It allows his character to be Johnon McClein at the same time, meets Deadpool, while also resembling Fred McMarey in "double compensation" and William hurts "body heat".

There is also a little meta -quality to introduce Noir's film in Novocain, which is that Jackec Kwaid's father, Dennis, has displayed a more classic Noir Petty character in 1988 "Doa" in 1988, a remake of the 1950 film. The film is almost a mirror image of "Novokain": in "Doa", instead of not being injured, Dennis Kwaid's character is slowly dying after being irreversibly poisoned near the beginning of the film. Instead of being handed over by the woman in which she is in charge, it turns out that the woman in which she is in -shouting (played by Jackec Kwaid's mother, Meg Ryan), is the only person in his life he has not betrayed. It is clear that there is quality for both the senior and the younger Quaid that makes them perfect guys from falling.

On a further loan, Novokain does not only pull the bait and a sherry switch, as the script and the middle of the match refuse to make it only a stereotype or plot. The character of Jerry and the way it is shown almost double as a target of the stereotypical action film Female leadership. Where she was originally presented as an innocent love -bodian interest (and thus a "reward" awaiting the macho -hero), she then turned into a traitor, someone who makes the hero look weaker because he was so easily classified. She then changed again thanks to her original feelings for Nathan, as she decided to try to stop her chaotic, murderous foster brother and also help to save Nathan and the involved authorities, namely Detective Minson (Betty Gabriel).

What is particularly impressive about the arc of the character of Jerry is that it is not seen on the whims of the film, but is extremely consistent throughout the whole period. Everything Jerry reveals to Nathan (and audience) in the first act is true, and that is simply the context that changes and is filled to explain its changing faithfulness. Thus, in the same way, Kwaid should show the courage of hero and dirt Dofus at the same time, Midthunder becomes a female fatal and heroine with a gold heart. Instead of having to be tied to a chair or post for most of the film, Midthunder is active throughout the whole period, and even participates in the last sequence of the film's fight, attracting a little of its action film chops. All this makes "Novocain" even more than a great date for a date, as everyone in the audience can relate to the lead, rather than anyone who needs to take a background, as it was.

Much of the goodwill that Novokain has collected with its incisivity may be revealed if the film succumbed to the typical traps of fulfilling desires, as there were numerous genres of films in the past. The tendency for films to try and present an unobstructed happy ending is understandable, but still it is something that is so often felt as if not all those endings are earned. Part of this is not due to the desire to have a happy ending, and more to the narrative shortcuts in order to allow one. In other words, we are all used to such solutions where characters that have broken the law are given huge pardons, or the opportunity to escape into a foreign country, or false deaths with brand new identities. This initially seems to go "novocaine", as Simon is defeated, Nathan is the winner (and still mostly intact), and Jerry returns to the good guys.

However, the last turn of the film is that, as Nathan's cessation is mostly pardoned due to the relief, Jerry is really closed, though for a far shorter sentence than it would otherwise get them. The discovery that Nathan and Jerry continue their relationship as she stands behind the bars is the last earthy icing on the genre of cake, as it allows the film to have that happy ending until it ignores the sense of reality that it has dedicated itself to the whole film. After all, "Novokain" is a fantasy, of course; Nathan in real life could not take so much physical punishment no matter what condition he had or how many epipens he used, Jerry would still be in jail for a long time as an accomplice of robbery and murder and so on. However, the film does what they do so many great genres of movies, and that is to present a total fiction with enough truth (or things that feel true, at least) to be easily swallowed. It is the vegetables that should accompany fried foods, or - to use a more relevant metaphor - an anesthetic that allows the operation to be performed.

In the landscape of the genre that began to look more good, Novocain ends as acting just like its names.