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Posted on 06/29/2026 5:44:25 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain
I had never heard of Citizen Vigilante, Uwe Boll's new film starring Armie Hammer, until a few days ago. That's when I read that this movie has been effectively banned in Germany and the United Kingdom. Something about it encouraging violence against migrants.
But then Elon Musk made Citizen Vigilante available to watch for free on his X (formerly Twitter) platform. Something that would avoid the censorious thought police and let the people see and decide on their own. Which only made the German and British governments even more furious.
Rush Limbaugh called it the "Streisand Effect": trying to keep people from watching a thing, makes people want to watch it even more. Suddenly I found myself curious enough to check out Citizen Vigilante. That's what I spent part of the afternoon yesterday doing.
What did I think?
It's a far shot from being award-worthy. There have been other films - I'm especially thinking of the original Death Wish and also Harry Brown - that deal with vigilantism much better than does Citizen Vigilante. There are some things about this movie that should have been left on the editing room floor (the brothel scene was especially cringe-worthy). The entire movie looks like it was shot on an iPhone with no color correction or other tweaking. I could tick off a few more things that are problematic with this movie...
But those things aside, I do believe that this is a film as relevant as any other during this particular time in modern history.
Citizen Vigilante is a movie that dares to acknowledge something that too many corrupt officials in all the wrong places would rather not have the people thinking about. Namely, how out-of-control immigration that allows any so-called "refugee" into the civilized countries of the western world. And with those "migrants", who refuse to assimilate into proper society, has come obscene levels of violent crime. Including rape and murder.
The officials in government don't dare touch the issue, they're that afraid of looking "racist" and "bigoted". A lot of judges have been letting the migrant defendants - whenever they can be brought to court - off with easy sentences. Their rationale: that migrant youth "don't know any better" and are even simply "misbehaving".
Meanwhile the actual citizens of those countries must live with two-tier law enforcement that places migrants above them. To raise the issue and dare challenge it is to invite condemnation from the government. Indeed, it's now a punishable offense in England to post criticisms of the migrants on the Internet. Do so and you're going to get the constables banging on your door to take you down to the hoosegow. The real citizens are treated much more harshly than the illegal aliens. Everybody knows it's happening.
Citizen Vigilante in inspired by that radical disparity across Europe between law for citizens and "law" for migrants. It's a very rough movie but there is no doubting the central message: that increasingly people are having to fend for themselves because the government refuses to help them. If there is a breakdown of the law and the duly-appointed officers cannot or will not intervene, then it becomes the duty of the people to address it themselves. And that is what Armie Hammer's character Michael Sanders does. He's taking out the bad guys, including the judges who are much too lenient, in order to drive the people into taking charge on their own.
This is a very, very brusque film. Not a spectacular film, and it won't win any prestigious awards. But it will get people talking. If they cannot readily see it because of their "democratic" governments refusing them access to it, they're going to want to watch it. I suspect that there might be a thriving underground commerce for Citizen Vigilante across Europe (is The Pirate Bay website still functioning?). It's going to make a lot of people think... and be moved to act. I doubt - and I really do want to doubt - that this movie is going to entice sane people into doing some of the things that Sanders does in his war against out of control migrants who refuse to like civilized folks. But it will anger them enough to take the bull by the horns and bring their governments back under their control.
My advice: go watch Citizen Vigilante, however it is that you can find it. Don't expect a pretty and easily palatable story. But you will find a very timely one.
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Great flick. Very satisfying. Some scenes debatable as to their inclusion and message, but overall excellent.
Has a semblance to the Charles Bronson vigilante movies, but applied to modern-day red-pilling.
I watched it. I like the premise of it because I love death wish and such. People taking charge of their own protection. But I give the movie itself C rating as the scene with the brothel was totally unnecessary and really takes away from the message of the movie. I also thought killing the cops was stupid
I saw it on X. I thought the Scene running the var off the road and the prostitution scene were odd and out of place in the movie. The good thing is that it will get people talking about how their politicians are abusing their citizens.
Speaking of Germany, there’s been a mass shooting. Reports of five dead. One or two gunmen identified, possibly in custody. But get a load of this...
https://nius.de/kriminalitaet/schuesse-in-jugendeinrichtung-in-stade-fuenf-tote-zwei-festnahmen
Per the above, English translation provided...
“...NIUS asked the Lüneburg police press office about the nationality of the suspected perpetrator. They refused to answer. The reason given was that nationality had nothing to do with the crime...”
Okaaaaay...
Nicely written
thank you
I actually skipped a bit over the brothel scene. It went way too long. And I’m at a point in my life where I take care of what I let enter my mind. That scene is one of the things that I didn’t want to have my eyes fixated upon. But some have argued that it shows how corrupted Armie Hammer’s character is. I can buy that, but Boll should have come up with a better way of conveying that.
I watched it as well.
I echo your summary, and take on the film.
Kinda rough, somewhat canned spots where acting is chunky, script writing has flat spots, but the message is loud and clear.
Yes, the brothel scene is cringe. I thought it was more about the main characters capitalistic bent than anything else, but maybe not.
I’d recommend it just because it’s VERY poignant for the times.
Just don’t expect an award winning flick.
Leftist lies loom large.
I fast forwarded the entire scene.
After Citizen Vigilante, see Michael Caine in _Harry Brown._ Its vigilante hero deals with the “Chavs” (sic?) that were a problem in Britain. But in the main, the behavior of those criminals can be seen in today’s “refugee/migrant” populations. And _they_ are entrenched in no-go zones and even have sympathy within the state that pampers them.
I know a man who is now a citizen. He has multiple severe code enforcement issues including, a cottage he built next to his R1 single family house for his mother-in-law. No plumbing, electric from a single wire from the main house. He has two RV’s with family living in them with the sewage pumped to the back yard.
The code inspector showed up. He did the “no speak English” act and the code inspector went away and never returned. The codes, laws, rules, etc. are only for the white middle class citizens.
I’ve seen numerous trailers of the movie on facebook. Poignant topic but definitely a ‘B’ movie. Because of its notoriety there will definitely be a flood of copycat movies. Low budget home movies.
I planned on watching it this week.
The other films mentioned “Death Wish” and “Harry Brown” are both well done films. Especially, Harry Brown. Which I watched just recently I believe on Amazon Prime.
Michael Caine is the main character(Harry). A retired pensioner and former British Army. Who decides to take care of things when the local Yutes are terrorizing his neighborhood. Of course, these Yutes are all White Punks on dope. So, it is now OK to kill them.
A very good film.
1916 Dublin
It’s time for the Brits to go.
But, Mr. Irate Irishman, you don’t even have an Internet connection so you can’t possibly be thinking negatively about any other group.
Thank you for those kind words :-)
Belfast
Troubles?
The only troubles I have are at the petrol station.
IOW: Chumps. Laws, rules, codes, inspections, taxes…. Only for us white, tax-chattel chumps.
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