“Day Shift” is a Netflix online American action comedy film directed by J.J. Perry and starring Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, and Natasha Liu Bordizzo, about Bud, who lives in Los Angeles and hides his true identity as a vampire by working as a pool cleaner. The plot follows Bud, a pool cleaner living in Los Angeles, who hides his true identity as a vampire hunter.
But now facing a marriage and economic crisis, he must work harder to raise a large amount of cash within a week’s deadline in order to keep his family and his career.
Jamie Foxx, who is both a singer and an actor, has been loved by many fans since his debut with his rugged and charismatic image.
Whether it’s the recent ‘Baby Driver’ or ‘Spider-Man: No Way Home’, whenever he makes an appearance, he makes a lasting impression.
This time, he played a powerful but uncontrollable day shift vampire hunter in ‘Day Shift’, what kind of face will he show? I believe the audience will be curious.
Background of ‘Day Shift’ protagonist
Set in Los Angeles, California, ‘Day Shift’ stars Jamie Foxx as “Bud,” a pool cleaner who, as a blue-collar worker, must work at the behest of many clients every day.
But just like those guns and special tools in his tool bag, Bud’s seemingly harmless surface hides an unknown and surprising identity as a hand-to-hand vampire hunter.
In the worldview of the film ‘Day Shift’ there are vampires, as we know them, who are out by day and night, feeding on human blood.
High-ranking vampires are immortal, extremely powerful, able to move quickly and have a strong self-healing ability.
But their greatest weakness is their fear of sunlight, which kills them after being shot in the heart with a wooden bullet and having their heads cut off with a silver weapon.
‘Day Shift’ story development
Day Shift’ protagonist Bud the vampire hunter has been in the industry for many years, but taking care of his family Bud does not want to put his wife and daughter in danger.
Due to this special status, Bud can not confess to them, always mysterious also put his marriage in crisis.
Although Bud’s relationship with his daughter remained strong, his relationship with his wife grew distant and the two began to separate.
As a result of settling in California, every month to pay for a large amount of expenses, including children’s tuition, living expenses, etc., financial constraints of his ex-wife plans to take his daughter to move back home to Florida to live, so as a vampire hunter can not leave Bud, in order not to lose his beloved wife and baby daughter, he must think of other ways to earn money to stop them from leaving his side.
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Because once because of acting too impulsively, violating many rules around trouble, and even endanger the lives of others, ‘Day Shift’ protagonist Bud was kicked out of the Hunter Association, during this period of time, whether it is the movement or selling trophies, everywhere are restricted.
So now, with the help of a friend, will Bud, who has managed to rejoin the association, be able to seize the last chance to get the high expenses needed and repair the emotional relationship between his family within a week?
In order to prevent Bud from breaking the rules again, the association assigned him a partner, Dave Franco as “Seth”, a rookie in the office.
Although Seth has a wealth of knowledge, but the lack of practical experience, now teamed up with Bud in the field, two people bickering also for the ‘Day Shift’ collision of many interesting sparks of laughter.
Does ‘Day Shift’ worth watchig?
In order to make money quickly, the ‘Day Shift’ pair of partners they decided to cooperate with the strength of not less than Bud’s hunter brothers, together with a massacre of vampires.
The two not only understand each other and build a unique partnership after hearing each other’s stories, but also accidentally discover the strange phenomenon of many vampires of different lineages now living together and working together.
The interesting thing about ‘Day Shift’ is that in addition to making money, the protagonist Bud also faces other difficulties.
The villain in the film “Audrey” is a female vampire, disguised as a beautiful young real estate agent, want to integrate the entire Los Angeles vampire power, the ambition to become the local boss.
After finding out that her daughter was killed by the protagonist, she also began to hunt him.
‘Day Shift’ action scenes
As ‘John Wick: Chapter 2’ martial arts director J.J. Perry’s directorial debut feature film, the entire film from the first part of a shot a vampire, to the final showdown with the villain The Demon King, it is also many action scenes for the audience to bring a lot of exciting entertainment.
I like the director’s mastery of the choreography of the ‘Day Shift’ action sequences, which are both bloody and violent, full of images of vampire limbs breaking, and fast-paced and cleanly edited by the whole.
With like a car chase with a little girl, as well as abandoned bowling alleys, underground cemetery scene switching, all of these make ‘Day Shift’ to be a satisfying and entertaining film.
‘Day Shift’ movie review conclusion
On the whole, the Netflix movie ‘Day Shift’ is a terrifying and fun action adventure for Jamie Foxx, a hard-working protagonist who wants to make a good life for his daughter, through the contrast of ostensibly being a blue-collar dad, but actually being a vampire hunter.
Although the whole film does not have any depth of content, but look at the father in order to find their own value and glory of the efforts made, somehow actually quite relieved pressure.
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