How far would you push your body if you couldn't feel any pain? Well, when it comes to love, the answer for Nathan Caine in "Novocaine" is: pretty dang far. Hitting theaters on Friday, "Novocaine" is both a rom-com and an action film,

“Novocaine” only cost $18 million to produce, so (like its main character) it shouldn’t be feeling any pain at the box office. On the flip side, “Mickey 17” cost $118 million to produce and needs around $275 million to $300 million worldwide to make a profit.

Novocaine could have been written by a 12-year-old, and I’m not sure I mean that pejoratively. It’s a riff on superhero stories, but it’s been thought up with a whiff of dopey plausibility: The film’s protagonist,