In what worldwide information scientists are already calling a confluence of three of the worst dudes to ever do it, Armie Hammer, Elon Musk, and director Uwe Boll entered into a short collaboration this weekend, forcing untold numbers of usually innocent human beings to learn all three of their names inside the span of a single sentence. In an extra escalation towards the forces of fine style, the trio additionally compelled individuals with eyeballs to soak up a rigorously crafted triptych of their faces; actually, an offensive on all fronts.
It shakes out like this: Boll and Hammer have been working collectively for a minute now, having teamed up for Boll’s newest clumsily crafted provocation, Citizen Vigilante. Mentioned movie sees Hammer—who hasn’t appeared in a Hollywood film since 2022’s Loss of life On The Nile, after being accused of abusive behaviors towards ladies in 2021—play a person who goes on a violent vigilante spree towards migrants who’ve dedicated essentially the most pulled-from-the-right-wing-tabloids sorts of crimes throughout Europe. (He additionally yells at individuals for not paying their bus fare.) In keeping with Boll, the film was not too long ago given an “unrated” ranking by Germany’s self-regulating film ranking board, the FSK, making it unlikely it could be proven in German theaters—and if the confluence of supposed censorship and “paints migrants as uniformly violent criminals” has your Elon senses tingling, congratulations: Your grasp of the rhythms of the 2026 information cycle is at present working at a graduate stage.
Apparently fed up by the censors, Boll posted Citizen Vigilante on Twitter this weekend for a span of 48 hours, aimed toward his whopping 19,400 followers. At which level, Musk determined to step in and personally promote the movie to the 240 million individuals who comply with him, to say nothing of all of the non-follower of us that the X algorithm usually serves his “content material.” Musk, so far as we all know, has no funding within the film—outdoors of the best way it rhymes with the virulent anti-immigration campaigns he’s been waging for months and years at this level, leastways—however serving it as much as a inhabitants greater than half the scale of your entire United States must be considered as some slight measure of endorsement. It’s not clear how many individuals really watched the movie, which Boll has now pulled again down, courtesy of Musk’s raise, however 313,000 have preferred the publish selling it. (Amongst different issues, the movie now sports activities greater than a thousand glowingly constructive scores on the viewers aspect of Rotten Tomatoes, lots of them posted within the final hour; in the meantime, it sports activities all of 4 write-ups from skilled critics, all unfavorable.) All of which is to say that Musk might lastly have helped Boll discover his dream viewers: A bunch of people that will slather his films with reward not for his or her questionable craft or content material, however for punching down at precisely the precise of us.
