The low-stakes comedy with dueling personalities turns the fanged night-dwellers into bland, karate-kicking zombies.
“Vampires,” Jamie Foxx’s character Bud tells us in the new movie “Day Shift,” “ain’t Brad Pitt in a leather jacket in some blood rave. It’s not ‘Eclipse,’ it’s not ‘New Moon,’ it’s not ‘Breaking Dawn Part I’ — it ain’t like that.”“Day Shift,” directed by J.J. Perry
, turns the fanged night-dwellers into bland, karate-kicking zombies, devoid of any personality and mythic grandeur but ready to engage in hand-to-hand combat and do pointless backflips.Bud masquerades as a pool cleaner in California’s San Fernando Valley while actually making a buck as a union vampire hunter. He slaughters the undead, rips out their teeth and sells them for cash. Not the sexiest plot, but there it is.Are we amused when Foxx knocks around a blood-sucking grandma? Meh.
Life gets complicated when Bud’s ex-wife and 8-year-old daughter are kidnapped by a vengeful vamp named Audrey and he needs to rescue them from a sound stage, er, subterranean lair.The movie, which looks tolerably cheap, is mostly a low-stakes comedy with dueling personalities. Dave Franco plays dorky Seth, an adjudicator who is assigned to make sure reckless, rules-be-damned Bud isn’t violating vampire hunter union bylaws.
,” and that’s OK because it hasn’t gotten old yet. There’s also a twist for his character that makes no logical sense, but it’s fun enough for a spell., starring Woody Harrelson and Jesse Eisenberg as methodical zombie killers. That pair of films also involves rules, a neurotic dweeb palling around with a reckless gunslinger and a comedically tinged creature killing using found objects. The comparisons end there, though. “Zombieland” has unexpectedly moving character arcs and cleverness.
Lucky “Day Shift” has an Oscar winner in Foxx, who’s appealingly heroic, and gags about a burning sensation on characters’ privates.
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