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Citizen Vigilante Blu-ray Review: Uwe Boll, Armie Hammer, and the Art of Ragebait Cinema

Some movies go off the rails purely by accident, runaway studio budgets, corporate micromanagement, or well-meaning creatives hopelessly out of their depth. Some of these trainwrecks are fascinating and endlessly rewatchable. Then there are the movies that feel like they were summoned directly into existence by the internet's darkest, most reactive algorithms, crafted specifically to pick scab after scab of the modern culture war. Citizen Vigilante belongs firmly to that second category. You can't sit through it without realizing you are looking at one of the weirdest artifacts of modern bargain-bin cinema, a project that feels less like a narrative motion picture and more like a fevered comment section brought to life. Uwe Boll directed, wrote, shot, and produced the film, a filmmaker whose name carries over twenty-five years of infamous baggage. Boll spent the early 2000s terrorizing video game fans with cheaply made adaptations like House of the Dead, Alone in the Dark, and ...