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bell today we are here to discuss the new netflix vampire action comedy starring jamie foxx by the
name of day shift a film i got the chance to check out early and the film will be available
on netflix on friday august 12th is it worth checking out we're going to be discussing that
and so much more in today's spoiler free review but before we get into it if you enjoyed today's
video give it a thumbs up as well as share it but more importantly let's have a discussion in the
comments were you looking for today shift are you a jamie foxx fan do you like vampire movies more
importantly once you've seen day shift would you all think about it let's talk about the direction
the story the vampires the action what didn't work for you all and we're gonna have a discussion
about this a little bit later in this review how do you all feel about this hundred million dollar
plus budget for these action movies on netflix has it worked will it continue to work if you believe
it works and if so what is your favorite kind of big blockbuster action film that you have seen on
netflix let's talk about it in the comments below so going into day shift i wouldn't say i was like
over the moon excited i didn't watch a trailer the things that kind of gravitated me towards watching
this movie number one i'm an action fan number two it's in the summer you know you can sometimes find
those hidden gems in the summer especially horror i'm a vampire fan i like supernatural stories and
also i like jamie foxx ladies and gentlemen i have been following him since i was a little
kid watching in living color his own show the jamie foxx show seeing him transitioning into
movies booty call players club uh any given sunday collateral rey and most recently and spiderman no
way home i'm a fan of his work when i think about this film well let's start off by talking about
my positives and i want to start off by talking about the director here making his director debut
jj perry now jj comes from the land of stunt work he's an actor stunt man he's worked on things like
mortal kombat bloodsport he's worked on marvel projects he's worked on quinn's tarantino projects
he's a stuntman turn director and i think of him in the same vein as chad kazowski you all
might recognize that name he's the director of john wicks he comes from the land of stuntman
turner to director i think of david leach who has directed deadpool 2 most recently bullet train
he's a stuntman turned into a director i say all that to say normally when you see those stunt man
getting behind the camera their action has a uniqueness to it it's very fun it's very energetic
it's very unique and i have to say i thought jj perry when it came to the action this film
he did a good job of bringing that energy of bringing that entertainment factor especially when
you look at the opening sequence without giving too much away here pretty much you have jamie foxx
playing bud who is a pool cleaner who's disguising this day work as he's a vampire hunter right he's
killing vampires in the film and from that opening sequence very kind of evil dead action sequence
very bloody very violent i was here for it and el every action scene from the opening sequence to me
was really shot well and handled pretty well for the most part so jj perry cutting his
teeth all pun intended in this film shooting the action i was pretty entertained on that element
transition to entertainment i'm kind of biased because i already mentioned it i'm a jimmy fox fan
and i thought that for the most part jamie foxx who plays bud who is a husband who is going
through a little bit of a tough relationship with his wife played by making good he has a daughter
he's trying to support so you understand his motives and i thought that jamie foxx
he was believable as a dad and a husband trying to get his wife back but he was also
jamie foxx he's you know mid-50s but you would never know it because he can still
kick a lot of ass and i thought that he was very believable in the action sequences in this film
and again highlighting i thought the action was the saving grace of this movie so jamie
foxx for the most part did a good job i really enjoyed the action in the film for the most part
unfortunately that's where my positives end it it pains me to say this because again i was i'm
a vampire fan i'm an action fan i'm a jb fox fan but my goodness man this this i don't want
to speak hyperbole but uh this is probably one of the worst films that i have seen this year
it boils down to a couple different things number one again i'm just going to focus on just a couple
key things i don't want this to become a rant because at the end of the day i don't like to
let you all know that films are bad because i have made films in the past going to school for filming
movies and i know how much it takes to make a movie especially and i was on a small college
level this is a hundred million dollars i know the directors the writers the actors the crew they
weren't intending to make a bad film and again this is just my personal opinion but unfortunately
the final product was was pretty bad in my opinion let's focus on the vampires here fundamentally
speaking this has to be the most unmissing most unscary vampires i've probably seen in recent
memory the first vampire when we opened the film again we meet this elder of the sorts and that
was like okay very evil dead i love the practical and the cgi and the mixture of the two i'm like
okay we're gonna be in for a again the story might not be all that great which you know i i
wasn't expecting oscar winning script but i'm like hey at least i'm gonna get some fun vampire lore
it lacks that to the underneath the green there's really not a lot of foundational
understanding of the lore of this vampires in this film again they kind of hint it towards i mean
we've seen a thousand vampire films they don't like garlic they don't like the sun they play
to those tropes but you don't really get a grip of they introduced there's like five different
like vampire types in this movie ubers and new bloods and there's a bunch of nonsense i say
that but it's just again fundamentally speaking go to a vampire movie you watch a vampire show
to be like invested into this lore into this mythology and it just was
very lackadaisical and to be honest with you it was almost like a parody in regards to how
they handled these non-threatening non-lethal vampires in the movie so that was something
everything around the vampires from the opening was minus opening scene onward was just not for me
even to the to the smallest my new detail this film is rated r there's a lot of violence in
the film a lot of action in the film a lot of decapitations in film why and i saw this early
and i don't know if this is one of those i had i seen it early and the final effects weren't done
i don't think that's the case because they gave it to me a day before the film's coming out but
they went with like the blood was black it was like black goo i don't like that choice give me
blood give me real blood now if this is blade pg-13 marvel mcu sure they can get away with
that but like why did they do like little small things like that was like was baffling to me
performance wise again i wasn't expecting this oscar-worthy performance i thought jamie foxx
was fine you got snoop dogg who there would be no slander of snoop dogg on this channel he was snoop
dogg and he was fine as big john in this film i really enjoyed his elements in the movie but
characters like dave franco who i actually like dave franco i thought he was completely miscast in
his role someone that has to kind of keep tabs on bud jamie foxx character and they have a bit of a
friendship and a bond but over over the course of the film he became very annoying dave franco's
character other secondary characters like she's not in it a lot but megan good i like her
celebrity crush i'll be honest but she was just kind of very flat in her role and all the other
secondary characters the villain i mentioned how i didn't like the vampire stuff the villain in this
movie and her henchmen were absolutely laughable they were just so bad and i looked up the young
lady that played the villainous movie she has a great filmography i'm sure she's a great actress
but she i just think it was a case of miss casting and there's a lot of miscasting in this movie
and just it just wasn't a good movie y'all as the movie went on it just became a joke
it became a parody i'm someone that appreciates good production the production elements like
the camera choices again i know jj perry is a new director and you can kind of see that in this film
the score in this movie was very late 90 early 90s like again i mentioned mortal kombat earlier
it was very kind of that type of score to the film kind of power rangers score which didn't it didn't
fit the scenes on the screen the other vampire hunters there i will go back to a positive scott
atkins in this film and i'm a big martial artist and i love seeing him in films he was great he
he did his thing in this film but even that set of characters bro bro bro like that was just goofy
it's a goofy ass film again i wasn't expecting the best vampire movie of all time but at least give
me something that's digestible and unfortunately this is a lot of faults that i have this film
one being this fundamentally speaking the vampires were trash in this movie
i can go on and on and on but i don't want to become turn this into a rant before i give you
all my overall thoughts and let you know i can probably tell if i'm going to recommend this or
not but before we get into all that if you stuck around to this point in the video i appreciate you
give the video a thumbs up share comment subscribe overall at the end of the day i it pains me to say
it but this film was not that good it wasn't good at all if i'm being honest with you all day shift
just wasn't my film again i do highlight that for the most part the action's there there's a couple
good laughs i enjoy jamie foxx and what he gave to this role between this and project power uh
two bad films in my opinion but i'm still gonna support jamie foxx and i'm gonna support jj perry
moving forward i hope he gets another chance to do more action do more directing but this his first
outing just wasn't for me i'm gonna give day shift a 1.5 out of five this was just not a good movie
y'all so do i recommend it hell no but listen this is one of those films where i want you all to see
it but we can talk about it and we could talk about how bad it is again i'm not uh shaming the
directors or the actors of the talent and crew they put their best efforts uh in this film it
just wasn't a film that worked for me so again 1.5 out of 5 for me that's just my thoughts but hey i
want to know yours from your pros your cons did you like the action did you have a good time am
i completely wrong in my opinion or do you believe that we are on the same page that just just isn't
a good movie and wrapping up this review i don't know how netflix is gonna sustain this method of
a hundred million dollars for this film it did not look like a hundred million dollar film
gray man 220 six underground 180 there's they're putting so much money into these big blockbuster
films and they're just turning out to be either okay or mediocre or like in this case bad netflix
you need to stand your strategy asap i'm not a fan of the strategy and even hbo max knows this
isn't a good plan so let me know how you all feel about that thank you all for watching this review
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