In what international news scientists are already calling a confluence of three of the worst dudes to ever do it, Armie Hammer, Elon Musk, and director Uwe Boll entered into a brief collaboration this weekend, forcing untold numbers of generally blameless human beings to read all three of their names within the span of a single sentence. In a further escalation against the forces of good taste, the trio also forced people with eyeballs to take in a carefully crafted triptych of their faces; truly, an offensive on all fronts.<\/p>\n
It shakes out like this: Boll and Hammer have been working together for a minute now<\/a>, having teamed up for Boll\u2019s latest clumsily crafted provocation, Citizen Vigilante. Said film sees Hammer\u2014who hasn\u2019t appeared in a Hollywood movie since 2022\u2019s Death On The Nile, after being accused of abusive behaviors toward women in 2021\u2014play a man who goes on a violent vigilante spree against migrants who have committed the most pulled-from-the-right-wing-tabloids kinds of crimes across Europe. (He also yells at people for not paying their bus fare.) According to Boll, the movie was recently given an \u201cunrated\u201d rating by Germany\u2019s self-regulating movie rating board, the FSK, making it unlikely it would be shown in German theaters\u2014and if the confluence of supposed censorship and \u201cpaints migrants as uniformly violent criminals\u201d has your Elon senses tingling, congratulations: Your grasp of the rhythms of the 2026 news cycle is currently operating at a graduate level.<\/p>\n Apparently fed up by the censors, Boll posted\u00a0Citizen Vigilante\u00a0on Twitter this weekend for a span of 48 hours, aimed at his whopping 19,400 followers. At which point, Musk decided to step in and personally promote the film to the 240 million people who follow him, to say nothing of all the non-follower folks that the X algorithm regularly serves his \u201ccontent.\u201d Musk, as far as we know, has no investment in the movie\u2014outside of the way it rhymes with the virulent anti-immigration campaigns he\u2019s been waging for months and years at this point, leastways\u2014but serving it up to a population more than half the size of the entire United States has to be viewed as some slight measure of endorsement. It\u2019s not clear how many people actually watched the film, which Boll has now pulled back down, courtesy of Musk\u2019s lift, but 313,000 have liked the post promoting it. (Among other things, the film now sports more than a thousand glowingly positive ratings on the audience side of Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>, many of them posted in the last hour; meanwhile, it sports all of four write-ups from professional critics, all negative.) All of which is to say that Musk may finally have helped Boll find his dream audience: A bunch of people who will slather his movies with praise not for their questionable craft or content, but for punching down at exactly the right folks.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In what international news scientists are already calling a confluence of three of the worst dudes to ever…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":498990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-498989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498989","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/498990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}