Everyone knows you can’t survive on just one job in California.

In Day Shift, the new vampire actioner that debuted Friday on Netflix, Jamie Foxx plays Bud Jablonsky, who by day fishes expired rodents out of pools in the San Fernando Valley, and also by day hunts vampires with an array of weapons.

The idea is to behead the vampires, extract their fangs like a medieval dentist, and turn them in like rare coins at a pawn shop in exchange for cold, hard cash.

The movie is directed by veteran stunt coordinator JJ Perry, who has worked on the Fast and the Furious and John Wick movies, and the screenplay is from first timer Tyler Tice along with Shay Hatten, who wrote John Wick 3 and Army of the Dead, and despite some good bona fides, it’s really just an ok movie. Here’s why.

Fangs: The Action
Day Shift goes all out on the action sequences, showing them in great detail, with a lot of inventive stunts and balletic fight choreography. There’s a lot of fighting, but not a lot of repetitive action, and the credit goes to fight choreographer Felix Betancourt and his crew, including Justin Yu, David Wald and Eric Brown.

No Fangs: The Mundane
The writers decided that what vampire hunters in their fictional world need is a multi-level bureaucracy governing their job, including a union that controls who gets to work legitimate vampire hunting jobs and who has to freelance for less pay. Bud was cast out of the good graces of the union, and must wheedle his way back in when he needs to up his pay range. When Bud’s weird-haired boss Ralph (Eric Lange) rages at Bud from behind his desk, the movie feels more like Dilbert than Blade.

Fangs: Jamie Foxx
Foxx is a great lead, with the physique (stay for the shower scene) necessary to pull off the movie’s complex stunts, as well as the charm and humor needed to carry the film. If you enjoy the film at all, it’s probably because of him.

No Fangs: Dave Franco
Dave Franco plays Seth, Bud’s union rep, who thanks to Mullet Boss must accompany Bud on his missions. He’s a nebbishy, milquetoast character, and in the first half of the movie, he drags down the fun quotient considerably. And watching the movie, you get the idea that the screenwriters have a personal hatred of Franco, as they visit all sorts of embarrassing indignities upon his character.

Fangs: Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg is probably the other reason you’ll enjoy the film. He doesn’t get enough time on the screen as Big John Elliott, the hunter who helps Bud get back in good with the union, but he makes the most of what he gets. While he never breaks the fourth wall, he does manage to wink at the audience when he gets the spotlight, and he is so fun to watch as he decimates a horde of vamps in the most flashy and flamboyant way possible.

No Fangs: Internal logic
How do you take out an LA vampire? Good question. The chief weapon used by Bud and his cohorts are guns, which mostly don’t work to stop the vampires, unless they do. No matter how many times they get shot with regular bullets, they keep on fighting back, probably because vampire hunters target the body mass, probably in the hopes of preserving those precious fangs. But when Big John sprays them with lead, they stay down. Different bullets maybe? Also some vampires can go outside, and just get a little crispy, the way fair-haired people do, while some can’t go out at all or they’ll burn up, like redheads. And taking off their heads seems to be the best way to permanently disable them – except when one main character turns into a vamp and gets beheaded and puts his damn head back on his body and carries on like nothing happened.

Fangs: The Nazarians
Aside from Snoop, we don’t see much of the other vampire hunters in action, until the Nazarians pull up and agree to work a job with Bud. Played by Steve Howey and Scott Adkins, and sort of resembling HGTV’s Property Brothers on steroids. the brothers and Bud (and Seth, unfortunately) work to take out a nest of vampires in an extended action sequence that is both amusing and probably the most thrilling in the movie. Then they disappear, never to be seen again. Give them their own film!

No Fangs: Everything Else
Nothing else in the movie really stands out. It’s billed as a comedy, but there aren’t that many laughs. Peter Stormare is great in a small part as Bud’s fang broker, but he gets on and off screen pretty quickly. Bud’s daughter Paige is played with maximum cuteness by Zion Broadnax, but the plot hinging around Bud’s ability to make money for his family seems really cliche. His troubles with his estranged wife Jocelyn (Meagan Good) are easily resolved once she finds out he is a vampire hunter that has put her and her child in harm’s way, which is totally what would happen in real life. There are exactly two good vampires in the movie, for no reason except that Bud did one a small favor, thus earning unending loyalty. And the big bad in this movie, Audrey San Fernando (Karla Souza) isn’t really that big or that bad; she is supposed to be pure evil and wants revenge against Bud for killing her daughter, yet she gives Bud all the time in the world to rescue them and vanquish her. There’s not a lot here that isn’t done better in Blade. Or Dilbert.