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Citizen Vigilante

Watched it in the background.

Last ~20 minutes are good.

It's Europe's version of Death Wish for sure, as previously mentioned.

At release Death Wish was considered morally reprehensible, this is obviously considered the same. I don't know how this movie will age relative to what will happen to Europe/UK. I do know at this point in time, Death Wish is a fantastic movie and this one is far from that.

Movies that are technically "bad movies" can still hold significance. I'm glad someone can make a movie like this.

96% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.
 
AJUMP23 said:
I was just thinking of the Dungeon Siege movie he did which had an amazing cast but was such a terrible film.
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LotR and GoT wish they were ItNotK: ADST.

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I liked Rampage a lot. Didn't bother with anything else.

I suspect his moviemaking career is some sort of performance art.
His PhD is about genre serialisation. He made a whole bunch of sequels, shot Bloodrayne 3 and its parody at the same time, made multiple serial killer and genocide movies, focused on videogame adaptations and is now making unofficial sequels...
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After years of making us suffer with countless horrible video game movie adaptations, has Uwe Boll actually done something useful through his film-making?

Uwe Boll Redemption Arc was not on my 2026 bingo card.

EDIT: I started watching it and I wonder if the videogame fan in Uwe was maybe inspired by Watch_Dogs. The vigilante dresses a lot like Aiden Pearce and that was exactly what Aiden Pearce was in Watch_Dogs, a revenge seeking vigilante going after bad people.
 
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There's definitely a trend worldwide of loving revenge/comeuppance stories against violent criminals. Most of the civilized world is sick and tired of scum (often imported) committing heinous crimes and going unpunished by a two-tier justice system.

People even watch foreign movies/shows to get their fix. I remember The Glory, a Korean show about a woman who plots revenge against her old school bullies, ranking #1 worldwide on Netflix for several weeks. The bullying shown in the beginning of the series is pretty intense and surprised Western viewers, but real teachers in Korea stated that the bullying in The Glory was actually tamer than what they saw in their own schools. These last few weeks I've noticed another Korean show very high in the Netflix rankings called Teach You A Lesson and so I looked it up and apparently it's about a government sanctioned group that is sent into schools to deal with thugs and bullies, but with a heavy hand. Sounds like my kind of show, I'll be checking that out as well as Citizen Vigilante.

Thanks again to Elon for doing God's work.
 
So I just finished it, and I can't really say it's a good movie, but I mean this is Uwe Boll we're talking about, so I never expected it to be. I also can't say I agree with everything the vigilante says and does.

A lot of the movie is pointless, with scenes that go nowhere and don't really connect to anything else. The last 20 minutes is the "pay-off" where the migrants who raped a 14 year old girl get their comeuppance as does the judge who freed them and paint them as the real victims.

If you're trying to wake up people to stand up for their right to exist in their own country rather than submit to foreign scum, I wouldn't say this movie does a good job of it. It's not very thought provoking. Still, props to Uwe Boll for having the balls to make this and maybe it'll open the way for better movies to come along and really make people wake up and think.
 
I skimmed through it. Pretty bad movie, but I liked the theme and I thought the last part was well executed.

With all of the characters speaking English despite being in Germany (?), it felt rather surreal. Like Uwe Boll wanted to make the film in America but couldn't?

The concept was interesting, and I think it could be done really well by another director/team.
 
EviLore said:
He's not as bad as those days where he earned the worst director of all time badge on IMDb. Steady improvement from rock bottom to around 3/10 over the past 20 years. He's wiling to tackle subversive and transgressive subject matter which can make his work stand out a bit, as we see here.
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He's no Neil Breen, that's for sure.
 
I wonder why no ones making a big deal about the race swapping of the Hamburg rapists this was based on with brown and black actors? Not enough Serbians on social media to complain about DEI woke slop? Won't someone think about respecting eastern European heritage and culture?
 
Its a dumb as fuck movie, Uwe boll hasn't made anything of value. (talking purely as in the technical aspects of a film, from cinematography, script writing all the way to acting)

however, the reaction to it is pretty telling.

this movie would have come out like a fart in the wind and would have disappeared and 12 people would have saw it.

now it's culturally relevant because of the reactions from extreme lefty's. The topics in the movie really shouldn't be taboo.
 
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StueyDuck said:
Its a dumb as fuck movie, Uwe boll hasn't made anything of value. (talking purely as in the technical aspects of a film, from cinematography, script writing all the way to acting)

however, the reaction to it is pretty telling.

this movie would have come out like a fart in the wind and would have disappeared and 12 people would have saw it.

now it's culturally relevant because of the reactions from extreme lefty's. The topics in the movie really shouldn't be taboo.
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And ever the opportunist Uwe will milk this for all it's worth.
 
I saw a clip from this movie and thought "wow, you can make a movie like that in 2026?". If anything else, the movie is stunning and brave. I was not aware Uwe Boll was involved. Good for him. The thing is, Hollywood used to make movies like this and they no longer have the balls for it. So we will not be able to get a modern high quality Death Wish.
 
Damn, absolutely not a fan of shooting the cops when he just could have left, since he seems to have had advance notice. Only about halfway through so maybe there is a better justification.

Absolutely a fan of that hot ass hooker, yowza!

Armie Hammer as Batman makes a LOT more sense after watching this.
 
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