‘Citizen Vigilante’ Review
‘Citizen Vigilante’ ReviewSure, it’s fascistic. More importantly, it’s incompetent.Sonny BunchJun 30, 202641ShareArmie Hammer in Citizen Vigilante. (Courtesy Quiver Distribution)THERE ARE FEW DISREPUTABLE GENRES I unironically love quite so dearly as the vigilante flick. On the classier side of the spectrum, you get stuff like Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington’s Equalizer trilogy, a series of films in which an Oscar-caliber actor is tasked with answering questions like ‘How many ways can you kill a scumbag in a Home Depot?’ You want a woman-led iteration?
- ▪‘Citizen Vigilante’ ReviewSure, it’s fascistic.
- ▪More importantly, it’s incompetent.Sonny BunchJun 30, 202641ShareArmie Hammer in Citizen Vigilante. (Courtesy Quiver Distribution)THERE ARE FEW DISREPUTABLE GENRES I unironically love quite so dearly as the vigilante flick.
- ▪On the classier side of the spectrum, you get stuff like Antoine Fuqua and Denzel Washington’s Equalizer trilogy, a series of films in which an Oscar-caliber actor is tasked with answering questions like ‘How many ways can you kill a scumba
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| Original publisher | The Bulwark |
| Canonical URL | https://www.thebulwark.com/p/citizen-vigilante-review |
| Publication time | Tue, 30 Jun 2026 22:49:43 GMT |
| Retrieval time | 2026-06-30T23:07:47.412Z |
| Last seen | 2026-06-30T23:07:47.412Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
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| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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‘Citizen Vigilante’ ReviewSure, it’s fascistic. More importantly, it’s incompetent.Sonny BunchJun 30, 202641ShareArmie Hammer in Citizen Vigilante. (Courtesy Quiver Distribution)THERE ARE FEW DISREPUTABLE GENRES I unironically love quite so dearly as the vigilante flick. Putting a random man or woman into a maelstrom of disorder and watching them sort it out with muzzle flashes and hot lead is cinema in its purest, darkest form: a channeling of the social id in ways that can be both rousing and discomfiting, ways that reveal not only how the world works (or doesn’t), but who we are.The urban chaos of the 1970s led to Michael Winner’s trilogy of Death Wish films with Charles Bronson, an increasingly deranged orgy of violence that often owed more to the dream logic of a nightmare than…
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