Tuesday, October 2, 2018

Sodium Babies (2009)

It's always frustrating when a movie goes so far out of its way to be confusing. There's a total difference between a film being cryptic and forcing the viewer to think outside the box, as far as deciphering certain nuances within the story, and just being nonsensical gibberish. "Sodium Babies" is just that. Incomprehensible, pretentious nonsense.

A guy is forced into becoming a vampire whose job is to go around and kill people to harvest their blood for the "prince". The "drama" is amped up when there seems to be a rival blood siphoner  and... something about a chick who hits on one of the vampire guys outside of a club before a shoot out goes down...

This is sorta the 'crux' of the movie, however, new plot-twists arise which are completely convoluted and I wasn't, for the life of me, able to discern how the fuck it all tied together. Some talk show sequence comes out of nowhere, in which our main vampire character is the guest (this goes on for a LONG time) then some kind of symbolism (I guess) involving a dog is a recurring thing that I have no idea the relevance of. Through terrible writing and directing, "Sodium Babies" comes across as a wannabe Tarantino-influenced crime movie, mixed with weak, trying-to-be stylized "Underworld"/"Matrix", comic book-like action. And due to the clearly minimal budget, this all looks like college-level green screen garbage that is almost embarrassing to look at. Put it all together and "Sodium Babies" is just a horribly made movie that is impossible to get into in any way, whatsoever. Avoid this one at all costs.

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