Too bad about Day Shift. It’s got a good premise. But after a few promising early scenes, it turns rote, macho, and tiresome.

And for a Netflix movie that cost $100 million, it sure looks bad in certain sequences. The underground cave section toward the end is pitiful. Maybe throw the production design team a few bucks, would ya?

Day Shift is about a struggling pool cleaner named Bud Jablonski (Jamie Foxx) driving his rusted out, loaded-down pickup truck from job to job around the sunbaked San Fernando Valley. But he’s only using that job as a cover — he’s really a working-class vampire hunter, cleaning houses of invading bloodsuckers. He works with his own customized tools, such as a silver-coated wire that can be stretched across a doorway at neck height, which, according to Bud, “never fails” to behead the unwary vampire on the attack. But though the work is onerous, he’s barely getting by. To support himself, he cashes in vampire fangs at a local pawnshop run by Troy, played by the terrific Peter Stormare.