Citizen Vigilante Review – Armie Hammer returns to obliterate the imaginary piñata in Europe Stan | film

HeyH, Armie Hammer! Has it come to this? It doesn’t seem like it’s been that long since you appeared in the Oscar-winning film “Call Me By Your Name,” where you gave a sensitive, liberal performance opposite Timothée Chalamet. Now here you are, roaming the streets and parks of Zagreb, gunning down Muslims, gunning down teenagers, and topping the complicit Deep State judges, to protest what your character forcefully describes as “an unfriendly takeover by Islamic extremists and the awakening of the blinded left.”

A lot has happened to this actor who was once the grandson of oil tycoon Armand Hammer. His reputation took a nosedive after allegations of sexual assault by former partners in 2021, relationships that Hammer maintained were consensual. The criminal charges have since been dropped due to a lack of evidence, and Hammer is now back on the silver screen – and here he is in a very cheap, incoherent and embarrassingly poorly acted film, written, produced and directed by German low-budget maestro Uwe Boll, which deconstructs all sorts of revenge tropes. More importantly, the film was promoted and disseminated globally via the Internet with enormous hypocrisy on the part of Elon Musk, who, like J.D. Vance, is very keen to divert America’s attention from its own issues to Europe’s lawless immigrant caliphate. It’s another piece of crap to flood the area.

Hammer plays Sanders, a former US soldier who takes over his late father’s estate empire in Croatia. He is angry about the way immigrants are raped and killed there. So, using his massive cache of weapons, he sets out to kill them all, especially a group of mass rapists – along with the grumbling progressives in the judiciary who are allowing them to get away with it. He also proceeds to kill several uniformed police officers, whose sin appears to be merely wanting to arrest him. He posts videos of himself ranting about it, and we get the classic montage of people on social media all over the world saying how great he is.

Maybe Citizen Vigilante wants to be Michael Winner’s Death Wish, Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry, or even Scorsese’s Taxi Driver. But these films were of varying measures of emotion, style, intelligence, purpose, vision and competent production values. They hired actors who knew how to do the job of acting. Most importantly, she was talking about America, not Europe. If Paul and Musk want to make and promote a movie about corporate disagreements, why not a hard-hitting movie about the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump? Meanwhile, it was time for Hammer to return to the trade he had pursued before: selling timeshares in the Cayman Islands.