‘Day Shift’ movie review: Jamie Foxx shines in this jumbled mess

Whereas subverting style guidelines delivers a satisfying pay-off when executed proper, it’s past fatiguing to look at if executed 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 an eye fixed.

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 high greenback for his work. Despite the fact that famed vampire hunter, Massive John, (Snoop Dogg) places in a superb 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 likely to be rather more than a caring nurse. Troy (Peter Stormare) is the pawn supplier who involves a sticky finish involving pliers and enamel.

All of them face an evil vampire woman, Audrey (Karla Souza) who talks like she has a mouth stuffed 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 shouldn’t be torturing individuals and consuming their blood.

Whereas the premise seems to be rock stable on paper, it comes throughout as a jumbled mess on display. The motion sequences are lazy, the gore anaemic, and the humour somewhat 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