“They might (go to jail for the rest of their lives), of course, we won’t know till the end of the trial, and that could take years. And of course you’d have to participate in that trial, telling the story of what those men did to you over and over in a room full of people who are going to call you a liar and try to poke holes in every detail of your story. And we’ll also have to get lucky with the judgement. You never know how those things are going to turn out. And then during that long and expensive trial, we have to hope and pray that the men who did this to you don’t do the same exact thing to somebody else. Is that the justice you want?”
“I’m here to help you take that control back. I’m here to show you that you are no longer the victims. I’m here to show you that it’s time to go out and show these fuckers they aren’t getting away with it anymore. Remember, I do this for you until you learn to do it for yourself.”
Genuinely one of the most abhorrent films I have ever seen. Actual cannibal Armie Hammer stars as the American owner of several apartment properties in Europe. He travels overseas without a passport or proper documents in an attempt to rid Europe of criminal immigrants. The original title of this movie was ‘The Dark Knight’. This makes sense as Hammer’s character is blatantly copied after Batman, except this time he’s evil.
This might as well be the nail in the coffin for Hammer’s career. There’s one scene where he frequents an apartment floor where prostitutes do business. He buys one, has sex with her, and then proceeds to complain about mold in the room, revealing he owns the building. The twist in reality is that it’s actually Hammer who is the whore, accepting money to star in a terrible movie with terrible values like this.
Citizen Vigilante’s politics are disgusting and sickening. Here is a film that culminates in the vigilante murdering an entire Muslim family because their son and his friends raped a fourteen year old girl (He also murders the son and his friends as well). The Vigilante also winds up killing numerous judges near the end because he doesn’t approve of their verdicts and even kills innocent people driving a car to prove a point.
Citizen Vigilante has no business talking to audiences from a perceived high ground as in the previously stated prostitute scene, the camera openly ogles the numerous sex worker’s breasts and butts, objectifying them in the process.
Those looking for action or violence won’t get much of it as the majority of the film consists of Armie Hammer walking around, pouting, inspecting buildings, and monologuing to the camera and to characters on and off screen. When there is violence, it’s gratuitous and gory (often with bad CGI). This flick delights and revels in it. It ogles violence the same way it ogled those sex workers’ bodies.
The technical aspects are awful. The editing is some of the worst I’ve seen, jumping back and forth in time with very little rhyme or reason. The cinematography is ugly and amateurish, and the score is tough to listen to. The direction by Boll is what we’ve come to expect from him, which is to say it’s bad. Costas Mandylor co-stars as an interpol official determined to bring the vigilante to justice. Shame on him for agreeing to act in this movie.
Citizen Vigilante is not a movie, it’s an excuse for Uwe Bill to get on a soapbox and scream his disgusting and abhorrent politics at us. He hates all immigrants, legal or not, and is incredibly racist. It’s a film meant to trigger liberals and doesn’t attempt to hide its true purpose: to incite violence. This is not just a terrible movie, it’s a dangerous one as well and it’s all but guaranteed to leave you feeling dirty and unclean by the end.
0.5 STARS
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