Jack Quaid has chops that could take him much further than this violent live-action cartoon marked by cringeworthy misfortune and a distinct lack of consequence.

Jack Quaid puts his everyman charms through the wringer for love, but even he can’t save this forgettable action comedy.

Nathan Caine (Jack Quaid) can’t feel pain, but audiences will while watching Novocaine, a misfire that never strikes the right balance between comedy and carnage. The story of a man with a rare genetic condition that makes him impervious to suffering who finds himself thrust into rescue-mission mode when his beloved is kidnapped,