'Citizen Vigilante' Review: Uwe Boll and Armie Hammer Deliver an Indulgent Vigilante Thriller
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Todd Gilchrist
Summary
A review of Uwe Boll's thriller 'Citizen Vigilante' (originally titled 'The Dark Knight'), starring Armie Hammer as a vengeful American abroad. The film is criticized as an indulgent, incurious, and ugly portrait of vigilantism that fails to thoughtfully reckon with the complex morality of extrajudicial justice. The review notes the irony of the original title given the Batman connection, and suggests the film does nothing to help Hammer recover from his fall from grace.
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· 3 pulledUwe Boll's 'Citizen Vigilante' manages to be so indulgent and incurious a portrait of a man exacting vengeance that calling it wish-fulfil
Playing a vengeful American abroad, Armie Hammer does nothing to remedy his fall from grace in Uwe Boll's thriller 'Citizen Vigilante.'
After decades of cinema chronicling men taking the law into their own hands when 'the system' fails them, a thoughtful reckoning is warranted — if not necessary — about the costs, and complex morality, of vigilantism.
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