Warning. Spoilers Citizen Vigilante is one of the worst movies I've ever fully watched. The fact that people actually like this incoherent nonsense is just inconceivable to me. It starts off with...
Warning. Spoilers
Citizen Vigilante is one of the worst movies I've ever fully watched.
The fact that people actually like this incoherent nonsense is just inconceivable to me.
It starts off with a rather spectacular bit of gratuitous violence. A dude with a kitchen knife kills a mother in front of her young child. For no apparent reason. Does the young boy grow up to be the vigilante? No. Does the killer ever face justice? No. Do you spend the rest of the movie waiting for some sort of tie back to the opening scene? Yes.
Then we learn about the vigilante. He is so angry at violent illegal immigrants, he kills them. And their families. And their lenient judges. And any police who get in his way. It's somehow OK though... because he is a rich American slum lord living illegally in Europe... So we have an illegal immigrant who is violently killing off other violent immigrants... does the movie ever explore this interesting paradox? Of course not.
Sometimes bad movies become cult classics. Cult movies don't set out to make a bad movie. The directors just end up making bad movies. Edward D. Wood Jr was famous for this. This movie seems more deliberately bad. Yet people seem to like it. Like there is some inside joke that I just don't get.
Warning. Spoilers
Citizen Vigilante is one of the worst movies I've ever fully watched.
The fact that people actually like this incoherent nonsense is just inconceivable to me.
It starts off with a rather spectacular bit of gratuitous violence. A dude with a kitchen knife kills a mother in front of her young child. For no apparent reason. Does the young boy grow up to be the vigilante? No. Does the killer ever face justice? No. Do you spend the rest of the movie waiting for some sort of tie back to the opening scene? Yes.
Then we learn about the vigilante. He is so angry at violent illegal immigrants, he kills them. And their families. And their lenient judges. And any police who get in his way. It's somehow OK though... because he is a rich American slum lord living illegally in Europe... So we have an illegal immigrant who is violently killing off other violent immigrants... does the movie ever explore this interesting paradox? Of course not.
Sometimes bad movies become cult classics. Cult movies don't set out to make a bad movie. The directors just end up making bad movies. Edward D. Wood Jr was famous for this. This movie seems more deliberately bad. Yet people seem to like it. Like there is some inside joke that I just don't get.