Prime VideoNovocaine (2025)
Bias Rating
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Viewer Rating
Rating: 6.8
Overview
When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime Video
Paramount+
PhiloBias Dimensions
Political: Center
Diversity: High
Christianity: Positive
Overview
When the girl of his dreams is kidnapped, everyman Nate turns his inability to feel pain into an unexpected strength in his fight to get her back.
Starring Cast
Where to watch
Prime VideoParamount+PhiloDetailed Bias Analysis
Analyzing...
Leans Progressive
Primary
The film's central focus on universal themes of personal growth, individual resilience, and vulnerability, without explicit political commentary or alignment, leads to a neutral rating. The narrative champions an individual's journey through adversity rather than promoting a specific political ideology or societal critique.
The movie incorporates significant DEI elements through its diverse casting, featuring a Native American actress in a lead role and an actor of Filipino descent in a supporting role. The narrative further emphasizes DEI by centering a protagonist with a disability and explicitly challenging traditional masculine hero archetypes and gender roles.
Secondary
The film portrays Christianity positively by underpinning its narrative with a strong Christian, redemptive, moral worldview. It explores themes of suffering, pain, and redemption through Christian concepts like the 'armor of God,' aligning the protagonist's journey with spiritual motifs of friendship, love, forgiveness, and redemption.
Based on available plot summaries and thematic discussions, Novocaine does not feature any identifiable LGBTQ+ characters or themes. The narrative focuses on a heterosexual relationship and the protagonist's struggles, indicating no explicit or significant portrayal of the LGBTQ+ community.
Based on available information, the film's plot centers on a male protagonist, Nate, and his fights against male adversaries. There are no public records or descriptions of female characters engaging in or winning direct physical combat against male opponents.
The film is an original story, not based on pre-existing source material or historical figures. Consequently, no characters have a prior established gender from source material or history that could be subject to a gender swap.
The film features original characters without prior established racial identities in source material, previous installments, or real-world history. While two siblings are portrayed by actors of different races, this does not constitute a race swap as there is no pre-existing canon to diverge from.
Viewer Rating Breakdown
6.8
Viewer Rating
Combines user and critic ratings from four sources
User Ratings
6.5
6.9
Critic Ratings
8.0
5.8
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