{"id":247382,"date":"2026-06-20T02:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/armie-hammer-stars-in-controversial-new-thriller-citizen-vigilante\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T02:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T02:28:10","slug":"armie-hammer-stars-in-controversial-new-thriller-citizen-vigilante","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/20\/armie-hammer-stars-in-controversial-new-thriller-citizen-vigilante\/","title":{"rendered":"Armie Hammer Stars in Controversial New Thriller &#8216;Citizen Vigilante&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-2232793\">\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- Franchise logo or primary category --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/post title --><\/p>\n<p><!-- subheader --><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<!-- post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"tpd-post-thumbnail-container caption_belowImage credit_onImage\"><figcaption><span class=\"credit-text\">Credit: Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<!-- \/post thumbnail --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/armie-hammer\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Armie Hammer<\/strong><\/a> is back in a leading role with the release of <em>Citizen Vigilante<\/em>. <\/p>\n<p>The new action-thriller from filmmaker <strong>Uwe Boll<\/strong> is now available on all major TVOD platforms like Apple TV, YouTube, and Prime Video in the United States as of Friday (June 19), giving viewers a chance to see the film from home.<\/p>\n<p>The movie, which also stars <strong>Costas Mandylor<\/strong> of the <em>Saw<\/em> franchise, follows a wealthy American businessman living abroad whose violent vigilante campaign turns him into both a fugitive and an online sensation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Citizen Vigilante | Official Trailer\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fVxmjwaPEFU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-what-is-citizen-vigilante-about\">What is <em>Citizen Vigilante<\/em> about?<\/h3>\n<p>In the film, <strong>Armie<\/strong> plays Sanders, a wealthy American businessman living in Zagreb who inherited a massive real estate empire from his late father. Sanders begins targeting violent criminals who he believes escaped meaningful punishment through the legal system. <\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the official synopsis shared by Quiver Distribution.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><em>Citizen Vigilante\u00a0<\/em>story is Sanders (<strong>Hammer<\/strong>), a wealthy American businessman living in Zagreb who inherited a massive real estate empire from his late father. Intelligent, isolated and emotionally scarred, Sanders transforms himself into a feared underground vigilante targeting violent criminals, rapists and corrupt judges who escaped meaningful punishment through the legal system.<\/p>\n<p>As his brutal campaign gains traction online and across the media, Sanders becomes both a wanted criminal and an unlikely public hero. But not everyone sees him as a savior. Interpol Chief Henry, played by <strong>Mandylor<\/strong>, believes Sanders represents a dangerous threat to society and launches an aggressive international pursuit to stop him before his influence spirals out of control.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Citizen Vigilante<\/em> arrives with controversy already surrounding it. Director <strong>Uwe Boll<\/strong> has publicly claimed the film was effectively blocked from release in Germany following disputes over its classification with the country\u2019s FSK ratings board. <\/p>\n<p>The filmmaker has described the project as \u201can action film inspired by real events, based on real cases and a commentary about injustice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Armie<\/strong> recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/16\/armie-hammer-breaks-silence-after-scandal-i-didnt-do-what-people-are-saying-i-did\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">broke his silence after his scandals<\/a> claiming he \u201cdidn\u2019t do\u201d what people said  he did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"categories single-categories\">Posted To:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/armie-hammer\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Armie Hammer<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/citizen-vigilante\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Citizen Vigilante<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/movies\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Movies<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/trailers\/\" rel=\"tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trailers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/06\/19\/armie-hammer-stars-in-controversial-new-thriller-citizen-vigilante\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Credit: Getty Images Armie Hammer is back in a leading role with the release of Citizen Vigilante. The new action-thriller from filmmaker Uwe Boll is now available on all major TVOD platforms like Apple TV, YouTube, and Prime Video in the United States as of Friday (June 19), giving viewers a chance to see the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247384,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-247382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}