Jamie Foxx’s net Netflix movie Day Shift has just dropped and already reviews are flooding in, including one calling it a ‘goofy’ action flick.
The movie, which also stars Snoop Dog and Dave Franco, landed on the streaming site today, Friday August 12, and mixes comedy with action and horror as Foxx takes on vampires in LA.
Jamie Foxx’s Netflix Movie
In Day Shift, Jamie Foxx stars as a hard-working blue-collar dad, Bud, who just wants to provide a good life for his quick-witted 8-year-old daughter.
However, Bud’s mundane San Fernando Valley pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income – hunting and killing vampires. But when Bud needs to make some serious money, and quickly, to keep his daughter in his life he needs to get more vampire hunting work and there’s only one way to do that, by sucking up his pride and joining the International Union of vampire hunters – from which he was previously expelled.
Bud is then forced to partner up with Seth (Franco) who has had little to no fieldwork.
The movie is a directorial debut for JJ Perry, who previously worked as a stuntman and stunt coordinator for movies such as Star Trek Into Darkness.
Day Shift Reviews
With only hours on the streamer, reviews have already flooded in and one publication called the movie an ‘arduous piece of fluff’ while another commented on the ‘slapdash’ effects.
Writing for Variety, Owen Gleiberman, said: ‘At heart, though, it’s a knowingly eccentric goof of a movie, to the point that it’s hard, for a while, not to find it agreeable, even as you register what a preposterous piece of fluff it is. Unfortunately, it’s also an arduous piece of fluff.
‘It’s full of blow-you-away action scenes, and it’s also full of rules — a satirical vampire cosmology that’s fun until it starts to be just convoluted enough to give you a headache, especially when the rules are applied as inconsistently as they are here.’
Leah Greenblatt, in a review for Entertainment, called the movie a ‘different kind of cartoonish, a big squishy horror comedy with nothing but one-liners and bloodsuckers on deck’.
She said: ‘Day Shift looks and feels low-budget, from its slapdash effects to its sketched-in script, though that also feels like kind of the point: It might be bright daylight, but it’s always midnight-movie time somewhere.’
The Guardian’s writer was less kind to the movie, they said: ‘The crude, tedious action sequences with their video-game aesthetic are an incredible trial and there is nothing interesting or glamorous about these vampires at all.’