Variety portrays “Citizen Vigilante” as a violent, incoherent vigilante thriller that mishandles its subject and leaves Armie Hammer’s hoped-for comeback looking weaker, not revived.
Uwe Boll’s film is faulted for indulgent brutality, a nonlinear structure and almost no real plot beyond Hammer’s character hunting criminals while railing against a justice system he says protects them.
Armie Hammer plays Sanders, an American landlord-vigilante in a vaguely defined “Europe,” while Interpol chief Henry closes in on him despite the killer leaving fingerprints, videos and other obvious evidence.
The review also condemns the film’s xenophobic framing of migrants and Muslims, saying its closing dedication to rape victims in Europe only underscores how exploitative and morally bankrupt the project feels.