Even Armie Hammer Doesn't Like His 'Comeback' Film 'Citizen Vigilante'

I watch a lot of bad movies, mostly in the service of this site and often films I know our audience won’t watch anyway, because I like to beat up on bad movies and also because I assume that our readers often share the same morbid curiosity: Just how bad is it? I even very briefly considered covering Citizen Vigilante, the Armie Hammer comeback vehicle that I assumed would quickly fade into the ether.

Alas, it did not. The film’s anti-immigration and anti-Muslim messaging is so bad that Germany blocked its release, which obviously made it an even more attractive film to conservatives. And then Elon Musk promoted it, going so far as to host the movie for free streaming on X for 48 hours. It immediately shot to the top of Amazon’s rentals list, and it’s been hovering in that same top ten for several weeks now.

I should also mention that it was directed by Uwe Boll, the director we loved beating up on more than any other back in the early days of this site, back when his movies were just plain awful without the awful messaging to go along with them (well, at least not as overtly awful).

Anyway, according to Puck, even Armie Hammer — the star of the film, who has his own repugnant history — is not a fan of Citizen Vigilante.

“The first time he saw it, he was in tears,” a source from Hammer’s team told Puck. “He called me and said, ‘F***. This is hateful, disgusting.’”

Hammer still has a “team”?

So, why did Hammer make the film? First of all, he apparently never saw a full script, because Uwe Boll does not do full scripts. And second of all, Hammer was so desperate to get back into acting that he “would have done a f***ing cat food commercial.”

I’m surprised Ryan Reynolds didn’t launch a cat food brand and hire Armie Hammer for a commercial, just for the Internet virality.

But here’s the kicker: Hammer — who got paid $250,000 to make the film, and who “freak[ed] the f*** out” upon finding it “hateful and disgusting” — said that he would probably still do the sequel if the price is right.

That sounds right.

Source: Puck