Maxance Vincent FilmSpeak.net Jul 13, 2025 A-

Every action scene in Day Shift screams excess, but I couldn’t help but smile at everything the movie threw at me, even when it started to become increasingly cheesy.

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Jack Walters Loud and Clear Reviews Feb 15, 2025 3/5

"Netflix ’s Day Shift features some thrilling action scenes and a lot of well-timed humour, but the story often gets caught up in its own needless complexities."

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Jonathon Wilson Ready Steady Cut Oct 15, 2024 4/5

Die Hard + Lethal Weapon + Blade = Day Shift. The ideal Friday Night movie.

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Lee Zumpe Tampa Bay Newspapers Oct 26, 2023

“Day Shift” is only intermittently entertaining, leaving the viewer with a handful of rousing action sequences scattered across a mostly forgettable landscape populated with under-developed characters and materialistic vampires.

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Mini Anthikad-Chhibber The Hindu Oct 4, 2023

Genre leaps from horror to buddy-comedy to action to family-friendly and to a road movie make for exhausting viewing.

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Hector A. Gonzalez InSession Film Jul 25, 2023 C

Most of Day Shift’s jokes don’t land, and it is creaky and clunky during its entire runtime.

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Pramit Chatterjee Digital Mafia Talkies Jul 20, 2023 4/5

Day Shift is an action-packed, fun time. It has all the makings of a breezy but gory summer blockbuster.

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Kenneth Seward Jr. GameSpot Jul 19, 2023 8/10

Its premise is decent enough and while the buddy cop aspects fall flat more often than not, the film still manages to be funny. Ultimately, Day Shift is a fun evening waiting to happen for horror and action fans alike.

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Samuel Leggett Jr. JVS Media & Productions/Team JVS Dec 26, 2022 7/10

This is a rated R film for violence but honestly it's just a very entertaining Vampire Hunter ride. It can comes off very cringy at times. But actors are committed to there characters so no matter how crazy things get your still willing to watch again

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Dhaval Roy The Times of India Dec 6, 2022 3.5/5

Foxx and Franco have great chemistry onscreen and there are many scenes that tickle the funny bone.

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Jonathan Sim ComingSoon.net Nov 30, 2022 6/10

Every once in a while, it’s nice to sit back and enjoy a good ol’ guilty pleasure, and you’re going to find that with all the blood, guts, and body parts this movie has to offer — maybe even more than you’re willing to admit.

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Mel Valentin That Shelf Oct 3, 2022

Leaning heavily into Blade-style geysers of blood and gore, stunt-heavy action ... the feature is a perfectly serviceable, entertaining, time-wasting genre entry.

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Andrew Kendall Stabroek News Sep 23, 2022

When Netflix is dismissed as offering content to watch in the background rather than actual movies, “Day Shift” comes to mind. It’s not an atrocity but it’s so casual and careless about everything within its frame, it’s hard to know why to bother with it.

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Dominic Griffin The Baltimore Beat Sep 21, 2022 7.5/10

There was a time however, when even the bad movies were pretty fun. Day Shift suggests maybe we can go back there.

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Gabi Zietsman Channel24 (South Africa) Sep 21, 2022 2/5

No amount of cowboy Snoop Dogg giving roundhouse kicks to vampires could save Day Shift from the void of obscurity, lacking any sort of longevity that other vampire films have, stripping the monster of what makes it such a good villain in the first place.

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Jim Schembri jimschembri.com Sep 9, 2022 3/5

Beautiful to the eyes of any action fan is the centrepiece vehicle chase, which is fabulously mounted and features some truly marvellous editing and photography, the eye-popping drone work being even better than what we saw in Michael Bay’s Ambulance.

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Nestor Bentancor Nestor Cine Desde Hollywood Sep 9, 2022

A vibrant, action-packed popcorn flick that drains some fun out of the tired vampire sub-genre.

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Steve Murray ArtsATL Sep 7, 2022

The only consistent pleasure of Day Shift comes from Dave Franco as Seth, the finicky, suit-wearing union rep paired with the reluctant Bud. He gives the movie what little comic pulse it has.

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Eileen Jones The Jacobin Sep 2, 2022

After a few promising early scenes, it turns rote, macho, and tiresome.

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Jayne Nelson Radio Times Sep 1, 2022 3/5

An array of enjoyable, gnarly bust-ups but unfortunately there's little room left for padding out a paper-thin villain.

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