Day Shift
An LA vampire hunter has a week to come up with the cash to pay for his kid's tuition and braces. Trying to make a living these days just might kill him.
- Released:
- Runtime: 120 minutes
- Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror
- Stars: Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Meagan Good, Karla Souza, Steve Howey, Scott Adkins, Snoop Dogg, Eric Lange, Zion Broadnax, Oliver Masucci, C.S. Lee, Tetiana Gaidar, Peter Stormare, Danielle Kennedy, Shai Debroux, Massi Furlan
- Director: J.J. Perry
Comments
- moviesfilmsreviewsinc - 8 June 2024
Funny and well written
The film "Day "Shift" is a two-hour action-comedy for Netflix, directed by veteran stunt coordinator JJ Perry. The film follows a vampire hunter named Bud (Jamie Foxx), who is tasked with killing an infestation of vampires in LA. Bud uses various weapons, including pump-action shotguns, psychotic hunting knives, rolls of decapitation wire, and special bullets with toughened wood. His only ally is Big John Elliott, a cameo by Snoop Dogg. Bud needs $10,000 to save his estranged wife Jocelyn (Meagan Good) from moving to Florida with their daughter Paige (Zion Broadnax). To get more vampire-killing work, Bud must apply for readmission to the vampire-hunting "union" that had expelled him. He accepts a partner, Seth (Dave Franco), who is not used to field work. The film's crude action sequences and video-game aesthetic are not interesting or glamorous, with only a small bit of comic potential when Seth is compromised. The ethos of being "turned" is fudged to allow the protagonist to become a vampire while staying a good guy. The film is pretty bloodless and lacks any interesting or glamorous aspects. "Day Shift" is a vampire thriller featuring Jamie Foxx in a badass mode, with the film being a mix of eccentric goofiness and arduousness. Directed by J. J. Perry, the movie aims to be a dessert drenched in blood, but this adds flavor but also weighs it down. The movie follows Bud Jablonski, a Los Angeles vampire hunter who aims to get $10,000 to pay for his daughter's braces and grade-school tuition. He plans to do so by selling vampire fangs, which can be valuable depending on the bloodsucker they come from. The movie is one of the more perversely twisty vampire flicks in recent memory, with five types of vampires organized by age: Southern, Eastern, Spider, Uber, and Juvenile. To kill the vamps, they are killed through blasting them through the heart with special African hard wood and cutting their heads off with a silver blade. A black-market sunblock allows the vamps to be out in the SoCal daylight for about 20 minutes. Once they are killed, they release a special gas that Bud needs to get off with a special orange-yellow powder. Decapitation is the closest the film comes to having an inviolable law, as a key vampire gets decapitated only to place his head back on himself. There are also vamps who are loyal to humans rather than other vampires. Overall, "Day Shift" is a mix of undead action, cop/crazy cop buddy comedy, and a tale of a tough but saintly divorced dad trying to save his family. - toufikmouissa - 3 September 2023
"Everything's For Sale. You Just Have To Be Desperate Enough."
Action and comedy movie starring by Jamie fox, Dave Franco and snoop dogg, the story about hard working dad (Jamie Foxx) trying to provide good life to her daughter by working in vampires hunting next to his original pool cleaner job.
I kinda like it , it is a good entertaining action movie mixed with horror and zombie and bloody killing scenes, the music was good the fight scenes but kinda the vampires needs some work up, you will never get bored watching the movie.
There are some points that needed to be more managed like the vampire lady which is looks important but they didn't present it well, also Dave (Seth) how could he be an agent in vampire hunting and knows everything about them but he can't deal with a gun and pissed him self in his first contact with them, one of the most great things about the movie is snoop Dogg scenes, he nailed it and add more fun to it.
