Elon Musk is boosting an anti-immigrant film loved by the far right
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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/30/elon-musk-citizen-vigilante-immigration
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Fucking ironic given he is an immigrant himself, the stupid cunt!
So you’re anti-immigrant?
/j before Lemmy digs my grave
Terrible joke, but, to answer truthfully America is a melting pot. I believe in the strength born from people of numerous cultural backgrounds, as varied perspectives can contribute to building strong and innovative ideas/places/things. If anything, I am pro-immigration, I prefer people taking the legal route to becoming a citizen. Though I don’t agree with what ICE is being used to do at the moment. It’s cruel, despotic, and unethical to the max…MAGA feeds on the pain and suffering of fellow human beings, I do not.
So I started watching Citizen Vigilante a couple of nights ago. I knew nothing about it or the director. I just knew it was a direct-to-DVD kinda movie, and Armie Hammer in it. The review ratings on RT and IMDB (more on that later) seemed pretty good for a direct-to-DVD movie and I liked Armie in The Man From Uncle, so I gave it a try.
IT IS BAD! And I don’t just mean bad as in racist and offensive, although it’s that too. It’s just a TERRIBLY written, acted, and directed movie! There were two scenes that particularly stuck out as bad (spoilers ahead, but you really don’t want to waste your time watching this movie).
The first is a scene where Armie randomly goes to a sort of brothel and starts railing a prostitute. Mid intercourse he looks up at the ceiling and sees mold. This prompts him to stop, inform the prostitute that he is the owner of the building, explain how the mold is forming because of improper ventilation while showering, and that if her pimp doesn’t get that fixed he’ll be back (all threatening like). Then he goes back to railing her.
The second scene is where this huge terrorist task force is coming for Armie. The movie makes a big deal beforehand about how all the “regular” people all love the Citizen Vigilante, but the government doesn’t. You know, because of his racism… So all these military looking dudes go into this building where they know the Armie is, but he’s ready for them! He built this giant steel box in this empty room the size of your average bedroom. The steel box has two automatic machine guns facing outward that he can swivel around from inside, and a small little slit so he can see out. The military guys line up in this small room right in front of this box. They can clearly see the two machine guns, but why take cover, right!? Armie says this tough guy cheesy line about not wanting to kill them, and then the military dudes just open fire on this clearly bulletproof steel box they are standing infront of. Cut to a slo-mo of Armie mowing them all down from inside the box. Then if things weren’t ridiculous enough, the general orders a second wave to go in!!! The second wave lines up right in front of the box, just as the first wave did. No cover, or change of tactics. You can guess what happened the second time… Absolutely the stupidest action scene (if you can call it that) I’ve ever seen!
I finally turned it off when Armie goes on to speak with someone running his rental management company (apparently he’s a millionaire landlord when he’s not slaughtering people) and starts complaining that he can’t instantly kick people out of his units the day they miss a payment. You know, cause of the evil laws…
I honestly can’t see how anyone would ever enjoy this movie AT ALL, no matter how racist they might be. The reviews on RT and IMDB are clearly being manipulated with bots. All of them talking like this movie is some masterpiece.
Yeah, it sucks. There are way better movies out there than this poor excuse of a movie
And worse, it’s a Uwe Boll film
Can we just take this idiots money already and throw him in a hole or something
Kind of ironic since, um, well, fElon is an immigrant.
does this piece of shit not realise HE’S a fucking immigrant? He can’t be that daft, right?
Unfortunately, he is that daft
I saw half of this movie on Stremio I didn’t know anything beforehand I was just proper curious to see what kind of movie Armie Hammer was going to be in. You know that engine in your head that churns when you watch media that tries to predict what is going to happen well that thing gets blue balled this whole movie you keep expecting someone to come up to the main guy and slap him in the face and tell him to grow up but it never happens. Well in the first half idk about the second.
The author of this article seems to be arguing against an attitude towards Elon Musk which doesn’t actually exist. There’s no widespread perception of him as a moderate, and no taboo against calling him an extremist. Major newspapers aren’t making a big deal of his endorsement of this film because it isn’t surprising, not because they tacitly approve.
Yeah, well said