The One Movie Hollywood Would Never, Ever Make

Uwe Boll crushed the zeitgeist, if not the box office, this weekend.

The rebel filmmaker unleashed a thriller that speaks to the terrible headlines coming out of Europe. Migrant violence. Soft on crime politicians and judges. Everyday citizens fearing for their safety.

“Citizen Vigilante,” starring “cancelled” actor Armie Hammer in the lead role, follows a man fed up with exploding crime rates tied to new European immigrants.

And he’s doing something about it.

The film opens with a shocking murder, and the bloodshed only intensifies from there.

Boll is no stranger to controversy. He’s literally fought back against his critics and doesn’t shy away from provocative topics. His 2013 film “Assault on Wall Street” applied the vigilante template to corrupt capitalists.

This might be his crowning glory, at least on the incendiary front. How many filmmakers would even bring this subject up in the press, let alone shoot a vigilante thriller on the theme?

That’s rhetorical.

And the timing, sadly, is darn near perfect from a marketing perspective.

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And, right on cue, a major Hollywood news outlet dubbed the film “morally bankrupt.”

“Citizen Vigilante” is a film that disguises its exploitation roots behind the pretense of exploring an important topic, even as it proceeds to treat that subject completely inappropriately.

That Variety critic seems angrier about Boll’s film than the shocking headlines flooding out of Europe. That’s the only review, to date, for “Citizen Vigilante” on Rotten Tomatoes.

(Variety didn’t have as much of a problem when the vigilante’s targets were crooked Wall Street types in his 2013 actioner.)

There’s another key element to the film’s rollout.

“Citizen Vigilante” has been banned in Germany, the director’s homeland. The reason? It could inspire vigilante action in real life.

The censorship threat should get Jane Fonda’s attention at the very least. After all, she’s a newly minted Free Speech Warrior™, right? 

Right? And Jimmy Kimmel, too, of course.

We’ll wait to see if either stands up for Boll, a fellow artist.

Uwe Boll says his new film “Citizen Vigilante,” starring Armie Hammer, has been banned in his native Germany for “inciting violence against migrants.”

“Now you’re being told that if you’re a conservative about anything — social, sexual, political — that you’re a Nazi,” Boll told…

— Variety (@Variety) June 19, 2026

Boll will never win over the critical class. He deserves credit, even for those who hate “Citizen Vigilante” on cinematic grounds, for addressing a crucial issue many refuse to explore.

And, of course, he’ll get no such treatment from the media.