They have this thing in the movies called the Ratchet Pull, and you’ve seen it dozens upon dozens of times. Basically, cables and harnesses and wires and winches, etc., are rigged in a way that makes it appear as if a character is flying through the air in an action sequence—whether they’re a superhero soaring to the heavens, an action star leaping off a motorcycle, or a villain who gets punched or kicked so hard they’re launched into a wall or through a window. That kind of thing.
In the unremarkable and disposable Netflix vampire action film “Day Shift,” Jamie Foxx and friends (and stunt doubles) engage in one Ratchet Pull stunt after another, in fight scene after fight scene. Some of these stunts are so violent and comedically over the top, you can practically see the wires; at one point, Foxx’s Bud Jablonski actually exclaims, “This m----------- threw me UP the stairs?”
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