White supremacists love the new Armie Hammer movie

in vigilant citizen, Armie Hammer He plays Sanders, a former American soldier who inherits his father’s real estate empire in an unnamed European country. Angered by what he sees as the Muslim takeover of the continent, Sanders embarks on a spree of extrajudicial killings of immigrants, young people, and judges whom he sees as complicit.

In the film, Hammer’s character is encouraged by watching videos from an Instagram-like site Social media platform People around the world are shown applauding his violent crackdown on migrants.

“Have you heard about this guy fighting crime in Europe? He’s like the real deal. This guy takes out the trash,” one woman says in a clip from the film, adding, “I think we need someone here in the States like this.”

Unsurprisingly, right-wing extremists in the real world love it too.

In the weeks following the film’s release, white supremacists and other extremists praised the film’s message and claimed it could serve as a rulebook to follow in real life. “Maybe violence against immigrants is what is needed,” wrote a member of a far-right channel discussing the film. Another wrote in response: “It’s the only way. They have no remorse. They want you dead.”

The film reiterates the baseless Great Replacement conspiracy theory that Muslim immigrants have overrun the entire continent, and has been widely panned by critics who have called it “Surprisingly bad“and”Racist, xenophobic, ethnocentric, alt-rightIt was released in June just weeks later Anti-immigrant riots rocked the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.

The film is directed by Uwe Boll, widely considered by critics to be one of the worst directors of all time. He is perhaps best known for his popular video game adaptations such as Alone in the dark and Blood RainPaul, who has cornered his critics in the past and once challenged Michael Bay to face him in the ring, has also produced films on topics such as the Holocaust and peacekeeping operations in Darfur. (However, the film about Darfur won Best International Film at the New York International Independent Film and Video Festival.)

pee Piers Morgan said In an interview he was not anti-Muslim, but in his comments Hollywood is elsewhere He said that Muslims “will control power in about 30 years and then they will start killing everyone who does not convert to Islam.”

Paul tells WIRED that he was “meaning or implying radical Islamic Muslims” in his comment on “Hollywood Elsewhere,” adding, “They believe in Stone Age rules, hateful, anti-democratic, violent rules. They hate gays, Jews, Christians, and our way of life in general.”

It was basically a movie Forbidden In Germany, Paul’s native country, it was charged with “inciting violence against immigrants”, and like many of Paul’s other works, it was destined to be mostly ignored, until the intervention of Elon Musk, who spent weeks endorsing it.

Musk shared the entire film on X for 48 hours where it was viewed millions of times. During its promotion, Musk shared a post proposing a scene from the film in which Hammer’s character kills an entire family of Syrian refugees whose son has been accused of raping a 14-year-old girl, as a “mild response.”

The film was also released through popular streaming services. At one point, it even made it into the top 10 most popular on-demand streaming services from Apple and Amazon. Because the film has not yet been released in cinemas in some countries, some far-right groups have held live screenings of the film online.

“What is equally troubling about the racist violence depicted in this film is the fact that anti-immigrant viciousness has been normalized to the point that a film can be produced and distributed,” says Wendy Via, co-founder and president of the Global Project to Counter Hate and Extremism. “Influencers like Musk, who have millions of followers, and who use their platforms to spread bigotry and conspiracy theories, are a significant source of this unacceptable normalization of hate.”