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German filmmaker Uwe Boll says his new revenge thriller \u201cCitizen Vigilante\u201d exists because streaming giants such as Netflix refuse to depict migrant crime honestly on screen, opting instead for sanitized portrayals out of fear of backlash.<\/p>\n

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In an interview with Double Toasted, Mr. Boll said a studio like Netflix would reject a script depicting a migrant character as a murderer simply to avoid appearing politically incorrect. \u201cThis movie is kind of a revolt against it,\u201d he said, arguing there needs to be room for brutal, one-sided films that don\u2019t flinch from the subject.<\/p>\n

Mr. Boll made a similar complaint about German cinema, arguing that films there tend to portray migrant characters as uniformly well-integrated and sympathetic, a depiction he called divorced from reality.<\/p>\n

\u201cCitizen Vigilante\u201d stars Armie Hammer as Sanders, a vigilante who hunts down criminals \u2014 most of them migrants \u2014 after the legal system fails to punish them. Mr. Boll has said the film draws on a 2016 Hamburg case in which a group of teenagers gang-raped a 14-year-old girl and received only suspended sentences.<\/p>\n

Mr. Boll compared his approach to filmmakers who used shocking material to provoke audiences, pointing to Stanley Kubrick\u2019s \u201cA Clockwork Orange\u201d and Martin Scorsese\u2019s \u201cTaxi Driver\u201d as precedent for building a story around an unsympathetic lead. He said making Sanders cold and difficult to root for was a deliberate choice meant to keep the audience at a distance rather than inviting them to admire the character.<\/p>\n

He also described resisting Mr. Hammer\u2019s request to cut a scene in which Sanders drives an innocent motorist off the road, saying the moment illustrates that the character cares more about his cause than about who gets hurt along the way.<\/p>\n

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The comments follow weeks of controversy surrounding the film. It was denied an age rating in Germany after regulators there concluded it could incite violence against migrants, a decision Mr. Boll has likened to censorship. Asked directly if he was a Nazi, he laughed and said, \u201cI am not a Nazi!\u201d Tech billionaire Elon Musk later streamed the movie in full on X for 48 hours, boosting its profile among right-leaning audiences.<\/p>\n

Mr. Boll has also pushed back on a Puck report claiming Mr. Hammer was privately distressed after seeing the finished film. Mr. Boll told TheWrap that \u201cwe both had a great time working together\u201d and pointed to the film\u2019s strong audience scores as vindication. During a combative Reddit AMA promoting the film, Mr. Boll brushed off critics, telling them to judge the movie by its reception with audiences rather than reviewers.<\/p>\n

\u201cCitizen Vigilante\u201d has drawn a 6% approval rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes but a 93% score from audiences, according to the outlet.<\/p>\n

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