Jul 13, 2026 · 33 min · 17 segments
The worst director in the world is having the summer of his life. This is the full account of how Uwe Boll's fascist slop fest CITIZEN VIGILANTE topped the charts and became Elon Musk's favorite movie…
The German director Uwe Boll is often referred to as the worst director in the world, or some version of that, which I think means different things to different people.
To some, Uwe Boll's crude, hastily made video game adaptations and exploitation movies are which he's been making at a pace of one a year for the last 35 years, 35 movies in 35 years, to some, probably to most, his movies are just bad.
They are so uniquely bad, so consistently bad, that it makes them compelling, representing a significant chapter in the history of trash cinema that has to be reckoned with whether you want to or not.
But regardless of which side of the bold debate you fall on, No one, no one in their right mind could ever argue that Uwe Boll's movies, Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Blood Rain, take your pick.
No one could argue that these movies are culturally significant or influential in any way.
The depth and the nature of their incompetence gets debated on the internet, sure.
They don't affect the course of history because they have nothing to say and no reason to exist.
And even when Boll does dip a toe into current events, like in his financial crisis revenge thriller Assault on Wall Street, which I'm sure you've all seen, or his post-9-11 satire, if you could call it that, Postal, Even then, the production values are so shoddy and the characters in the script are so flimsy that whatever cultural or political commentary exists in them is impossible to take seriously.
That is, until June 19th of this year, just a couple weeks ago, when Bull's newest movie premiered, Citizen Vigilante starring Armie Hammer.
and whose paranoid and delusional fixations trickle into mainstream discourse via larger outlets like Fox News, The Daily Wire, and Elon Musk himself.
The far-right support for citizen vigilante was significant enough and persistent enough that it landed on the top of Apple and Amazon's new release charts in the weeks following its release.
Now, could it be the case that Uwe Boll finally figured it out? Could it be the case that he underwent some personal artistic transformation and actually made a movie deserving of this response? I suppose it could be the case.
But having watched Citizen Vigilante, I can tell you with confidence that it is not the case.
The German director Uwe Boll is often referred to as the worst director in the world, or some version of that, which I think means different things to different people.
To some, Uwe Boll's crude, hastily made video game adaptations and exploitation movies are which he's been making at a pace of one a year for the last 35 years, 35 movies in 35 years, to some, probably to most, his movies are just bad.
They are so uniquely bad, so consistently bad, that it makes them compelling, representing a significant chapter in the history of trash cinema that has to be reckoned with whether you want to or not.
But regardless of which side of the bold debate you fall on, No one, no one in their right mind could ever argue that Uwe Boll's movies, Alone in the Dark, House of the Dead, Blood Rain, take your pick.
No one could argue that these movies are culturally significant or influential in any way.
The depth and the nature of their incompetence gets debated on the internet, sure.
They don't affect the course of history because they have nothing to say and no reason to exist.
And even when Boll does dip a toe into current events, like in his financial crisis revenge thriller Assault on Wall Street, which I'm sure you've all seen, or his post-9-11 satire, if you could call it that, Postal, Even then, the production values are so shoddy and the characters in the script are so flimsy that whatever cultural or political commentary exists in them is impossible to take seriously.
That is, until June 19th of this year, just a couple weeks ago, when Bull's newest movie premiered, Citizen Vigilante starring Armie Hammer.
and whose paranoid and delusional fixations trickle into mainstream discourse via larger outlets like Fox News, The Daily Wire, and Elon Musk himself.
The far-right support for citizen vigilante was significant enough and persistent enough that it landed on the top of Apple and Amazon's new release charts in the weeks following its release.
Now, could it be the case that Uwe Boll finally figured it out? Could it be the case that he underwent some personal artistic transformation and actually made a movie deserving of this response? I suppose it could be the case.
But having watched Citizen Vigilante, I can tell you with confidence that it is not the case.
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