 Douglas Murray: What Really Makes ‘Citizen Vigilante’ So Dangerous The banned film about migrant crime rightly indicts Europe’s elites. But it could stoke intemperate rage along with righteous anger.
Armie Hammer in Citizen Vigilante. (Quiver Distribution)
Citizen Vigilante is an ugly film. It has been banned in Germany, viewed by millions of people on X, and is currently the number one film in North America on major streaming platforms. It can’t be avoided, and it shouldn’t be. In some ways the low-budget action film stands in a familiar genre of vigilante movies. Think Death Wish (1974) or John Wick (2014). If the setting were different, the leading man might have been Liam Neeson. But director Uwe Boll’s leading man is Armie Hammer, making his first appearance since one of the crazier #MeToo cancellations. And that is because Citizen Vigilante is meant to be—and is—controversial. It is set in present-day Europe, where crimes are committed every day by some of the millions of illegal migrants who have recently arrived on the continent, even though Europe’s politicians and cultural elites would rather ignore them. This article is by Douglas Murray. Sign up here to get an update whenever this author publishes a new column. The film opens with a beautiful German mother being stabbed in the neck by a migrant after leaving a supermarket with her young child. It closes—if you don’t mind the spoiler—with the antihero protagonist going to the house of a young Syrian man who has been involved in the gang-rape of a local girl...
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