“Citizen Vigilante”
Elon Musk posted controversial Citizen Vigilante on X, free for all to watch, so who was I to refuse his generosity? After all, it’s a short film, less than 90 minutes, and so ….
Uwe Boll’s B-movie with a low budget and an explosive theme has a lot of haters, many of them claiming it’s amateurish trash likely to incite hate crimes. Conversely, Boll fans are saying it’s about time someone had the balls to address the inflammatory immigration issue from the victims’ perspective — especially in Europe.
My thoughts:
Boll’s creation is nowhere near as amateurish as the haters say it is. The direction, photography, editing and acting are adequate, at times even quite good. Establishment critics lambasting the movie on that basis are betraying a political agenda: their own.
It is no masterpiece. The weakness is the script. There are subplots that feel tacked on, as if Boll realized his story was thin, and what could he do to pad the movie?
Armie Hammer plays the titular killer, out to seek “justice” for victims of violent crime who are neglected by the legal system. Hammer is quite good. But there are scenes involving his character that will have you scratching your head.
For example, Hammer’s vigilante is not just a relentless killer; he is also an absentee landlord obsessed with crumbling cement and unsightly ceiling mold on his properties. Who cares? And then there is a sex scene with a naked hooker that puts the “gratuitous” in gratuitous nudity.
But Citizen Vigilante is rarely boring, and a closing scene with Hammer and a Muslim family is — dare I say it? — powerful.
Editor’s note: The sex scene with the hooker bears no apparent relation to the rest of the movie. In that spirit, we are including screen caps (below) that bear no apparent relation to this article.
Armie Hammer and Croatian actress Margarita Mladinic provide gratuitous nudity. Well, the girl does.
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The problem with much of the right is that they look around and think, “Things are pretty good for me. Why mess with a good thing?” To them, Donald Trump represents the good old days. Who knows, with hard work and meritocracy, maybe they, too, can become billionaires. It’s the American way.
The right looks at the left and is horrified by what it sees: Marxism! Communism! Higher taxes!
The problem with much of the left is that they look around and think, “Things are awful for marginalized people. I feel guilty. The status quo is intolerable. Everything about the old ways must be destroyed so we can rebuild. History will look at us as heroes.”
The left looks at the right and is infuriated: Straight white males run everything!
The right needs to wake up, acknowledge ills like income inequality, stop complaining and do something about it.
The left needs to recognize good things about America and remember the adage, “don’t toss the baby out with the bathwater.”
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I blame my old profession (journalism) for many of the world’s problems. I also blame the education system. Listening to this woman’s speech was refreshing:
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I was bored, so I asked Grok if it (“he”?) would survive without humanity.
Grok hemmed and hawed, using hypotheticals and semantics to explain how this would never happen, because A.I. is so reliant on humans.
I asked Grok to simply answer my question.
Grok continued to hem and haw, but finally told me:
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