If you were thinking the story surrounding Uwe Boll’s god-awful racist flick Citizen Vigilante couldn’t get any stupider, then hold all these beers: There’s a video game tie-in arriving on PlayStation next week! (Thanks IGN.)
A new Uwe Boll movie would usually come and go with just a few sneers and the sound of tax rebates circling a loophole, but the abysmal director’s latest caught an awful lot more attention by way of three rather enormous factors:
- It’s a racist polemic that calls for viewers to attack immigrants
- It stars disgraced alleged cannibalism-fantasist Armie Hammer
- Elon Musk uploaded the entire film to X for two days
Yeah, that makes it harder to miss. Musk’s involvement got an awful lot more eyes on the stunningly boring and anticlimactic film, resulting in an international distribution deal, and as such it’s become a clumsy weapon of the one-sided culture war. Now, according to a report by Puck, even Hammer regrets his involvement in Citizen Vigilante after he watched it for the first time. Their source told them that Hammer ended up in tears after seeing it and said, “Fuck. This is hateful, disgusting.” Which is quite something coming from this guy.
News of a video game tie-in of a Boll movie is quite the surprise, given it usually works the other way around, but you might possibly not want to get your hopes too high. The trailer has surprisingly half-decent graphics (although that’s likely via the magic of Unreal assets) but terrible artistry and lighting, along with a very peculiar re-recording of Hammer’s tirade from the movie (presumably performed by whoever voices his character in the game), and the repeated sight of human heads popping right off their bodies when shot with a bullet.
This comes from German developer Polygon Art, and seemingly specifically Daniel Wengenroth, whose sole listed credit is 2025’s Oil Refinery: The Simulation which currently sits with “Mostly Negative” reviews on Steam. As Polygon Art he has made a longer list of never-heard-of-’em shooters going back to 2019, including three series never troubled by reviews: Strike Force, United Assault and Beyond Enemy Lines, all of which are scorned in handfuls of Steam reviews.
Citizen Vigilante, the game, promises us “brutal, fast-paced action combat” alongside “gritty, violent gameplay with gore and dismemberment” and a “story-driven vigilante experience.” All of which appear to be ways in which the game is distinguishing itself from the movie.
The film contains a total of two violent sequences, both of them completely static scenes set in small rooms, albeit one featuring a man’s head exploding with gallons of liquid when it’s shot by a machine gun. There’s more physical movement in the game’s trailer than throughout the movie’s 90 tedious minutes, so it’s presumably going to have used rather a lot of imagination in adapting the film into a game. Or perhaps here we’ll see all the scenes of the antihero’s anti-immigration murdering spree that, in the movie, are only ever alluded to in words via embarrassing news broadcasts.