‘Day Shift’ movie review: Jamie Foxx shines in this jumbled mess
Style leaps from horror to buddy-comedy to motion to family-friendly and to a highway film make for exhausting viewing
Style leaps from horror to buddy-comedy to motion to family-friendly and to a highway film make for exhausting viewing
Whereas subverting style guidelines delivers a satisfying pay-off when completed proper, it’s past fatiguing to look at if completed as haphazardly as in Day Shift. Martial artist and motion choreographer J.J. Perry makes his directorial debut with this movie, which switches genres from horror to buddy-comedy to motion to family-friendly and to highway film, within the blink of a watch.
Day Shift
Director: J. J. Perry
Solid: Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Meagan Good, Karla Souza, Steve Howey, Scott Adkins, Snoop Dogg
Storyline: A pool cleaner/vampire hunter has to get a piece of change in 5 days or lose his household
Runtime: 114 minutes
There’s a father who would lose his household if he doesn’t get a big sum of cash in time. The daddy, Bud Jablonski (Jamie Foxx), is a humble pool cleaner who moonlights as a vampire hunter, or is it vice-versa? By no means thoughts. Bud wants cash to stop his ex-wife, Jocelyn (Meagan Good) from shifting to Florida with their daughter Paige (Zion Broadnax).
He eats humble pie and will get again into the vampire-fighting union (he was thrown out due to his dangerous methods) to get prime greenback for his work. Regardless that famed vampire hunter, Massive John, (Snoop Dogg) places in a very good phrase for Bud, boss Ralph Seeger (Eric Lange) is having none of it. Ralph insists Bud travels with a union rep and chooses desk jockey Seth (Dave Franco) for the job. Additionally within the combine are legendary vampire hunters, Mike (Steve Howey) and Diran (Scott Adkins) Nazarian and Bud’s neighbour, Heather (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), who is perhaps far more than a caring nurse. Troy (Peter Stormare) is the pawn vendor who involves a sticky finish involving pliers and enamel.
All of them face an evil vampire girl, Audrey (Karla Souza) who talks like she has a mouth filled with enamel — oh wait, she does have a mouthful of enamel. Audrey is a hotshot realtor (what’s the subtext right here then?) when she is just not torturing individuals and consuming their blood.
Whereas the premise appears rock strong on paper, it comes throughout as a jumbled mess on display. The motion sequences are lazy, the gore anaemic, and the humour reasonably puerile. Foxx’s charisma is the one saving grace in a movie that guarantees a lot and delivers treasured little.
Day Shift is at present streaming on Netflix
