Day Shift (2022 movie) It works soft for its money

​A perfect example of a sort of drivel Netflix tends to specialize in, Day Shift is neither clever nor original nor especially good. It’s just loud, flashy, and in your face stupid in a way that says, “I cater to the lowest hanging fruit and I’m loving it.”
How unoriginal: well, it’s a typical buddy action thriller comedy, where those buddies are also the odd couple.
You got you hip and smooth Bud played by Jamie Foxx who, now in his 50s, has apparently forgot to age. Bud is a vampire hunter – this is established in an crazy opening scene which is just one prolonged fighting sequence. However, he isn’t very good at following rules – of course, he isn’t rebel, rebel – so he doesn’t get good shift and doesn’t make good money. And he needs money, desperately, his insanely hot estranged wife is giving him grief over it. And he’s got a young daughter to think about.
Enter Seth, your classic millennial nerd played by the classic millennial bro Dave Franco. Now that he more talented brother got cancelled, Dave is all we got, people. Dave aka Seth is a hip dresser and a sh*t fighter. Seth is a desk jockey at the vampire hunting company Bud works for and he gets, wouldn’t you know it, paired up with Bud to make one comically mismatched superteam.
The thing is, it isn’t that comical. It’s almost not funny at all and that includes the always amusing presence of Snoop as a killer cowboy. The movie ramps up on action to cover up for the fact that it’s fundamentally neither funny nor clever nor good. Clichés are riding clichés to the grand bombastic finale and a happy ending for all. Well, except vampires, obvs.
Dumb, crass, loud – this movie is essentially the way other nationals describe American tourists. It’s a movie that, despite its obviously sizable budget, manages to come across both corny and cheap. So, if it’s cheap thrills you’re after, go for it. Otherwise, pass.