Elon Musk opted to stream Armie Hammer’s German-banned movie “Citizen Vigilante” on X for 48 hours one week after the film debuted on streamers and in theaters. Musk posted the movie on Thursday.
The film was additionally shared by director Uwe Boll on the social media platform.
“Right here it’s. It’s Uwe Boll, director from Citizen Vigilante. The hour’s up, the film’s now obtainable on X for 48 hours. Get pleasure from,” Musk stated in a video shared on the platform.
Within the movie, Hammer performs an American businessman who goes after rapists, violent criminals, and judges earlier than turning into a wished man himself.
The film has been banned in Germany attributable to excessive violence and a perceived anti-immigrant message, an allegation its director denied.
“The ranking system refused to offer us a ranking [in Germany], so now you possibly can solely watch it should you usher in a Blu-ray from Austria or Switzerland,” Boll informed The Telegraph. “And I feel they did that on goal. It was a deliberate censorship choice. I employed a lawyer to complain about it, however we misplaced in a 6-2 vote as I used to be informed that the movie was inciting violence towards migrants.”
The film was impressed by a 2016 case in Hamburg when a bunch of teenagers raped a 14-year-old lady and left her for useless.
“In the event you take a look at what occurred in Hamburg, the place the rapists walked free with none penalty, the protection within the media was like ‘Oh, the poor perpetrators,’” Boll informed the outlet of the case. “It’s as if we’re residing in a totally insane and absurd political setting, particularly in Europe, the place folks have utterly misplaced monitor. There’s a big distinction between so-called ‘hate speech’ and stabbing folks within the neck. However info don’t matter anymore.”
The movie marks a serious step again into the business for Hammer, whose profession took an abrupt downturn when various ladies got here ahead in 2021 with allegations towards him involving rape, sexual and emotional abuse.
Hammer denied all of the allegations towards him, insisting that he had solely ever engaged in acts of consensual BDSM and emotional abuse. No felony prices have been ever filed after an LAPD investigation into the allegations.
That didn’t cease Hammer from being dropped from various tasks, although, and turning into one thing of a post-#MeToo Hollywood pariah. For the reason that allegations got here out, he has starred in only one movie that was shot after 2021, final yr’s “Frontier Crucible.”
