Film Review – Citizen Vigilante

Uwe Boll. Now there’s a name that hasn’t been publicized in a long time. The notoriously schlocky director caused a little chaos around two decades ago with a series of awful, video game-inspired pictures (“House of the Dead,” “Alone in the Dark,” “BloodRayne”) that turned Boll into an Ed Wood-style helmer, only without the B-movie charm. He hasn’t stopped working, still churning out no-budget endeavors, but Boll is back on the hunt for publicity, crafting “Citizen Vigilante,” which hopes to inspire some rage with its look at the migrant issue in Europe. Boll doesn’t up his filmmaking game in the process, but he does court controversy, hiring Armie Hammer for the lead role years after his own troubling behavior caught up with him, effectively ending his already fledgling Hollywood career. However, he’s back in action, attempting to look stern for Boll, who works to build an entire movie around hard stares and poor execution, serving up what appears to be a genuinely unfinished feature that’s solely out to antagonize with its intense idiocy. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com