I have no desire to see the new "Supergirl" movie. I don't hate James Gunn as a director. I think he's made some pretty stellar films in the past, but "Supergirl" just feels like a bad direction for a franchise starring a bad actress in a world where I've about had it with unoriginal concepts.
Don't get me wrong. I like me a good superhero movie, but they have to be good, and none of them have been lately.
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But what strikes me about this feeling is the fact that I was curious about a film that I knew would be sub-par and made by a director that I cannot stand.
On Thursday, I did a light review of the film "Citizen Vigilante," a film by German director Uwe Boll. The film was banned in his home country for one reason and one reason only; it actually depicted Islamic immigrants in a realistic light, and the main character was a person on a one-man mission to punish them and the politicians who allow them to wreak havoc on innocents.
The film is definitely the best of the worst. It's not cut well; the story will sometimes leave you scratching your head as to why something happened, and even Armie Hammer's acting doesn't fully mask the fact that the protagonist feels half finished.
But if I'm being completely honest, I liked the film. Not from an artistic standpoint, but from a personal one.
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And I'm not alone.
I went to Rotten Tomatoes to check out the reviews. Naturally, the critics hated it, or at least the two that bothered to review it did. The audience, however, loves it. It has a 98 percent rating as of this writing.
Reading the reviews is enlightening. Hardly anyone is praising the quality of the movie. They're mostly just praising its relevance. They're praising the fact that the film actually dares to say something the rest of the movie industry won't, and I have to agree.
The movie is bad, but refreshing. An odd combination.
But it's a testament to just how bad things have gotten all over the Western world. People are feeling ignored when they voice their opinions about the dangers of unfettered illegal immigration, especially from countries that have beliefs and traditions that run opposite to ours in almost every way.
People are being murdered, assaulted, raped, and enduring theft and destruction on a scale they've never had to, yet when they speak out against it, the only two responses they get are either silence or punishment. The idea from the ruling elite seems to be that if they just make everyone shut up and sit down, eventually we'll just get used to being second-class citizens and accept whatever fate awaits us.
That's only going to create resentment and anger. The West is many things: slow to anger, highly forgiving, and full of grace to a fault, but one thing it's always done is rise and become unbelievably dangerous when pushed too far. "Citizen Vigilante" is the portrayal of that burgeoning feeling, and it's resonated with so many people that audiences have only good things to say about it despite being a terrible film from a technical standpoint.
If this movie were made around the 1990s, it would've been laughed at, possibly even condemned by the general public. The thing is, the film is telling a terrible truth about the state of the Western world that too few want to talk about.
We're in trouble. Our leaders are sacrificing us on an altar to an ideology that the people are believing in less and less, and every day, another video or story hits the timelines of many social media users that shows what these illegal immigrants the elite are letting in are doing to us, whether it's murdering the innocent or raping defenseless women, and each time one does it only creates more and more anger and animosity.
Not just toward the illegals, but toward the traitors that are letting them in.
"Citizen Vigilante" should not be a relevant movie. In another time, it would look like a badly-written story about a dystopian government that turned its back on its own people, but today, it's literally the only film showing the world for what it is.
Honestly, I think we need more of these films until the general public finally feels comfortable enough to speak out openly about this.
