Film Review: Jamie Foxx, Snoop Dogg & Dave Franco In Vampire-Hunter Romp ‘Day Shift’ - Deadline
The vampire genre has survived innumerable indignities over the decades — Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter or Dracula 2000, anyone.The premise isn’t half-bad, with a leading-man vampire attempting to go straight for the sake of his wife and young daughter, and the presence of Jamie Foxx and Snoop Dogg in leading roles provides some allure, amusement and cache.
The setting — the dregs of the San Fernando Valley — scarcely seems less like prime vampire real estate compared to Transylvania, but that’s where a reformed vampire with the unlikely name of Bud Jablonski (Foxx) ekes out a living cleaning swimming pools.A vampire eminence eventually emerges in the form of Audrey (Karla Souza), prompting some action that becomes increasingly hectic and, ultimately, exhausting; the adversaries keep at one another until, at least from a viewer perspective, something’s got to give.