Citizen Vigilante—A Chronicle of the Near Future

“It’s as if we’re living in a completely insane and absurd political environment, especially in Europe, where people have completely lost track. There is a huge difference between so-called ‘hate speech’ and stabbing people in the neck. But facts don’t matter any more.” (Uwe Boll)

“This film is dedicated to the thousands of rape and murder victims in Europe who were betrayed by our legal system.” This is the message that fills the screen at the end of Citizen Vigilante—a stark message, yes, but one that has nothing to do with fiction and everything to do with reality. 

A reality that many witnessed for the first time on New Year’s Eve 2015 in Cologne and other German cities, and that forced the authorities and the media to address an uncomfortable truth when more than a thousand women fell victim to theft, sexual assault, or rape by groups of men—mostly foreigners, including asylum seekers and illegal immigrants. A year earlier, in 2014, the Jay Report brought to light what had happened in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, where at least 1,400 minors were sexually exploited while authorities stood idly by, at the hands of so-called grooming gangs composed mostly of Pakistani men. This case turned out to be just the tip of the iceberg, and a new report presented on June 16, 2026, by independent MP Rupert Lowe and led by survivor Sammy Woodhouse, estimates that, since the 1950s, at least 250,000 British girls have been victims of systematic sexual exploitation by these gangs. So no, this movie isn’t about fiction or fantasy,but about what we’re experiencing in Europe right now.

It’s been barely five minutes since the movie started when we see, in all its brutality, a foreigner slitting the throat of a mother holding her son by the hand. Once again, we’re not talking about something that happens in fiction—in less than a month, there have been two similar knife attacks, one in Switzerland and another in Northern Ireland. In fact, one detail of the film, shot in Zagreb, is that it doesn’t specify which country the story takes place in; it could be any Western country. Just as in the 1974 film Death Wish, a man emerges to put an end to all this, but this new Charles Bronson—Armie Hammer—is a blond-haired, blue-eyed former American soldier called Sanders. Determined to bring about justice, Sanders executes criminals, confronts the police, and also punishes judges who release rapists and murderers.   

As expected, the film has not been well received, especially in Germany, the home country of its director, Uwe Boll. In fact, Citizen Vigilante has been, in effect, banned due to its extreme violence and an alleged anti-immigrant message. In an interview with The Telegraph, Boll explained that his film is based on a real-life case that occurred in Hamburg in 2016, in which a 14-year-old girl was raped and left for dead by a group of teenagers who, in the end, never went to jail: 

If you look at what happened in Hamburg, where the rapists walked free without any penalty, the coverage in the media was like “oh, the poor perpetrators.” It’s as if we’re living in a completely insane and absurd political environment, especially in Europe, where people have completely lost track. There is a huge difference between so-called ‘hate speech’ and stabbing people in the neck. But facts don’t matter any more.

Boll denied that his film is a plea in favor of violence, saying instead that it is a warning that must be taken seriously: 

I’m not surprised about the rioting that I saw in Belfast the other day. In the end, this is what you get when you ignore people, and that’s the same as in my movie. I’m not condoning violence of any kind—it’s unacceptable and I’m against it in any form—but I think people are just saying, “Enough is enough” now.  

Sanders repeats the same warning at the end of the movie when he calls the Interpol inspector who had tried unsuccessfully to arrest him and asks him to convey the following message to his superiors: “If the politicians who pay you do not fight against Islamism and the woke Left, the population will soon do as I do and carry out a great clean-up themselves.” The warning is not out of place, and there are many places where citizens have decided to take the law into their own hands after years of being ignored by their own institutions—institutions more concerned with staying within the bounds of political correctness than with protecting their citizens.

Last week, Keir Starmer tearfully bid farewell as he announced his resignation as British prime minister. He did not cry or kneel for the young British man Henry Nowak, who died while telling the police officers handcuffing him that he couldn’t breathe; he refused to prepare a national report on thousands of British girls and young women raped by ‘grooming gangs’; and he did not shed a single tear for the British citizens sent to prison for criticizing immigration on social media. 

The contempt shown by politicians like Starmer toward their own citizens—and the labeling of anyone who dares to say that the emperor has no clothes as an extremist—has led to a complete loss of trust in a state and institutions that are increasingly failing and incapable, and that, in the name of combating racism, discriminate against the majority of the population. The same can be said of the mainstream media, which has gone to great lengths to hide the reality and labels the numerous cases in which people of the Muslim faith stab and run over European citizens as ‘mental illness.’ It is very likely that this film will be banned in other European countries—which will undoubtedly spark even greater interest in it—but the reality will stubbornly remain, and with it the possibility that one or many vigilant citizens will emerge in the increasingly near future.