If you ever wished that Blade crossed over with Bad Boys, Netflix's DayShift is a cheesy, chewy good time hunting vampires. kevinfoxjr's review:
’s gory, cheesy, vampire-hunting comedy-action film starring Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco is exactly what you expect, and that’s a good thing. The contortionist vampires are fun to watch, especially as they’re used for grapple-heavy impromptu martial-arts matches, and the soundtrack is solid. Between the relative success of, Foxx has figured out a Netflix lane with these effects-driven action films. Hopefully he makes a third.
Foxx plays Bud, a vampire hunter that disguises himself as a pool cleaner, who has to put together $10,000 for his daughter Paige’s tuition and braces to keep his estranged wife Joss from selling their home and moving to Florida. He has a weekend to do this and, unbeknownst to him, the realtor Audrey San Fernando is a vampire uniting different clans and subspecies in the San Fernando Valley.
Among the many combat sequences, there’s a car chase that goes off road and leads into the L.A. River while making use of drone shots, though not to the level of something like the excellent . The same scene utilizes a camera in a wheel well behind the shock absorbers, which I really fancied. The wild ride might be one of the bigger suspension-of-disbelief tests for the endearing father-daughter relationship between Bud and Paige…ifYes, the script gets hammy, but Foxx performs a knowing earnestness—he commits to the bit, leaning in for big bites of the chewy dialogue. In fact, while it is a comedy, it relies less on quips than you might worry.
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