Citizen Vigilante starring Armie Hammer. It came out recently and I saw it on an arg yee matey site. Within the first scene it was already clear what it was. It’s about some guy hunting down and killing “criminal migrants”. And of course the people love him in the movie. It’s like Nazi Batman I guess.

The first scene is some mom and her kid in a store and then some brown dude slits her throat for no reason and her blood spurts everywhere while the kid watches. Then it cuts to a fake newscast where they’re like “more immigrants doing crimes. Luckily we have a random white male murderer here to save the day!”

I didn’t watch the rest of it after I realized what it is but damn if it isn’t the most Euro™ thing I’ve ever seen.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    4 days ago

    your description of the opening scene reminded me of the opening scene from Sicario 2, the most absurd reactionary fever dream of Taylor Sheridan. i thought it had to be a misunderstanding when i first saw it.

    basically, it shows a bunch of migrants crossing into the US through the mexico border and then like a handful of them peel off from the group and run into a walmart, whip out machine guns, light people up and do a suicide bomb to kill a bunch of shoppers and the deal is that they were al qaeda and snuck in with a bunch of like rando families using a coyote. like some truly Invasion USA fantasy. this was a movie written by chuck norris literally described as a warning to “wake up americans” to the dangers of immigrants.

    Norris said he got the idea to make the film after reading an article in Reader’s Digest that said hundreds of terrorists were running loose in the United States. “I thought, ‘Boy, that’s scary,’” he said. “‘What if some guy on the order of a Khomeini or a Khadafi mobilized those guys and started sending them out to every major city?’… I know it’s going to happen, and even in the movie, the head terrorist says, ‘It’s so easy because of the freedom of movement in this country.’ So we’re really accessible to this. The movie is not meant to scare people, but to make us aware of a potential problem.”[8]

    “We’re trying to make a statement here”, he added. “This is about the people of the United States.”

    because of course that’s totally a real thing in TS’ cooked brain.