{"id":766062,"date":"2026-06-28T04:09:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766062\/"},"modified":"2026-06-28T04:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T04:09:13","slug":"elon-musk-posts-armie-hammers-citizen-vigilante-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/766062\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk Posts Armie Hammer&#8217;s &#8216;Citizen Vigilante&#8217; on X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/elon-musk\/\" id=\"auto-tag_elon-musk\" data-tag=\"elon-musk\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elonmusk\/status\/2070157480915538098\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">posted Armie Hammer\u2019s \u201cCitizen Vigilante\u201d to his X account<\/a> on Friday, sharing the controversial indie-actioner with his 240 million followers. The link was active for about 48 hours and went dark on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tDirected and written by 60-year-old German filmmaker Uwe Boll, \u201cCitizen Vigilante\u201d was notably banned in his home country for depicting abhorrent violence and for being anti-migrant, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/films\/2026\/06\/26\/im-not-a-nazi-germanys-controversial-director-hits-back\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The Telegraph<\/a>. The film was released in the U.S. on June 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cCitizen Vigilante\u201d follows Hammer as an American abroad in Europe on a blood-soaked mission to eliminate all criminal migrants. Other cast members include Costas Mandylor, D\u00e9sir\u00e9e Giorgetti, Steffen Mennekes, Neb Chupin and Mukit Abdul Hamid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/film\/reviews\/citizen-vigilante-review-armie-hammer-1236786040\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Variety\u2019s review of the film<\/a>, critic Todd Gilchrist minced no words, writing, \u201cBoll, a cinematic embarrassment since the early 2000s, here delivers a violent, incoherent, morally bankrupt slice of exploitation on the same qualitative level as \u2018House of the Dead,\u2019 \u2018Alone in the Dark\u2019 and \u2018BloodRayne.\u2019 In fact, the film is so astonishingly bad, it almost feels like the writer-director-producer is deliberately sabotaging his star <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/armie-hammer\/\" id=\"auto-tag_armie-hammer\" data-tag=\"armie-hammer\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armie Hammer<\/a>, whose intended comeback can only be harmed by this project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHammer, who starred in films like \u201cThe Social Network,\u201d \u201cCall Me By Your Name\u201d and \u201cSorry to Bother You,\u201d saw his career come crashing down in 2021 after facing allegations of sexual assault. Hammer denied the allegations, and in 2023, prosecutors declined to file charges against him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBoll took to X on Saturday to reveal that \u201cCitizen Vigilante 2\u201d will <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bollfilms\/status\/2070579801778217124?s=46&amp;t=3p-8-Xejpz4S1AyrjWCL8A\">release in 2027<\/a>. The day prior, Musk replied to a post on X showing \u201cCitizen Vigilante\u201d as the No. 2 movie on the Apple TV charts. He wrote, \u201c\u2019Citizen Vigilante 2\u2019 will be even better.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk posted Armie Hammer\u2019s \u201cCitizen Vigilante\u201d to his X account on Friday, sharing the controversial indie-actioner with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":766063,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[255187,49,48,250,75],"class_list":["post-766062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-armie-hammer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-elon-musk","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/766063"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}