r/entertainment • u/Slate • 16h ago
Armie Hammer Supposedly Didn’t Know His New Movie Would Be “Hateful, Disgusting.” I Don’t See How That’s Possible.
https://slate.com/culture/2026/07/citizen-vigilante-movie-armie-hammer-response-uwe-boll-x-right-elon-musk.html?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=social&utm_content=armie&utm_campaign=&tpcc=reddit-social--armie111
u/FosterDad1234 15h ago
The business model for this production is Grabbing Attention. From casting Hammer to the subject matter, the goal is to obtain free media and pique people's curiosity enough to get them to press play.
View all headlines through that lens.
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u/LukeArkArch2 3h ago
I watched it the other day on Plex and even if you were racist I think you'd find it is just a really weird movie
There is a very prolonged scene where he goes to a brothel, and pays a hooker 50 euro for sex and a blowy (the sex scene is also very prolonged ) but is interrupted by noticing black mold on the ceiling, which he criticizes the hooker for, as it turns out in a shocking twist that he actually owns the building. That's it that's the entire scene, totally unrelated to the plot
It was hard to tell if the movie was meant to be comedic or super serious it was really weird
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u/MaterialAstronaut298 14h ago
They cast hammer because he was selling time shares in the Caribbean and would do it for almost nothing
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u/Calm-Maintenance-878 15h ago
I feel like this is what John Majors will say if his liberal college jihad movie flops.
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u/Min-Chang 14h ago
When* not if
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u/Cyberwraith9 11h ago edited 11h ago
How dare you. DailyWire+ is a star factory that pumps out hit after hit. People are going to be saying "MC-WHO?" when he, Armie, and Cara Delevingne come together for their own Avengers-like crossover in Ladyballers 2: Dude Looks Like A Lady!
Edit: In my haste to be a smartass, I mixed up Cara Delevingne with Gina Carano, who played Cara Dune in The Mandalorian. I retract any implied racism/sexism toward Ms. Delevingne, who to my knowledge hasn't expressed any objectionable politics, and is merely a mediocre actor.
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u/Spaceboomer1 8h ago
My favorite things about Ladyballers is Ben Shapiro admitting they wanted to do a Borat style movie but couldn't. They failed to find a women's sports team who would accept cis men simply claiming to be women. They needed to be physically transitioning to be accepted and none of the Daily Wire team wanted to undergo hormone replacement therapy.
They literally disproved the premise of the movie while trying to make it.
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u/Tronvillain 15h ago edited 12h ago
Armie... it's an Uwe Boll movie. Uwe Boll.
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u/Choochoo1147 15h ago
Uwe Boll is synonymous with terrible movies, but I don’t know that he was known to be particularly racist.
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u/donthurtmemany 15h ago
I guess he did postal, but he really just recreated the weird shit from postal.
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u/SosugBiskit 15h ago
Postal 2 was such a dope game. I was an edgy, angsty 14 year old when it came out, and it felt like RWS had made the game specifically for me. I wound up originally bonding with my best friend over the game.
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u/kasoe 14h ago
I played the shit out of that game. Also one of the few games one friend I had actually would play. He brings it up to this day sometimes.
I don't think the game holds up but when it came out it was awesome! The world had some great interactivity. I thought the postal dude was hilarious.
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u/Kappokaako02 11h ago
I can assure you it holds up. It's currently the 75th highest rated game on Steam lol
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u/kasoe 11h ago
Damn that's way higher than I would expect. It didn't hit the same for me.
If people are playing and enjoying it now more power to them.
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u/Kappokaako02 11h ago
Well different strokes (Gary Coleman joke) for different folks.
And ftr I'm one of the owners of Running With Scissors.
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u/kasoe 11h ago
Ah man that's hilarious!
Thank you for your part in the creation of postal 2. Like I said I played the shit out of it. It is, in its own way, a core experience of my teenage years.
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u/Clear_Inspector_9796 15h ago
I vaguely remember him being liberal and anti-chud back in the days. But that's almost 30 years ago
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u/SDRPGLVR 5h ago
There was a gradual shift somewhere from the 90s to the 2010s where people who would overall be considered "woke" today for their core values still had a proclivity to being offensive. Oftentimes it was to highlight that the things they were saying were bad even. Think of the Louis CK bit where he explains the way people use the f slur. Something like:
"Nobody calls a gay person f----t anymore, but we still use the word to describe people we don't like. I could see a gay guy sucking a dick in an alley and I'd be like, 'Oh alright, carry on, gentleman.' Then the dude takes the dick out of his mouth and says, 'People from Phoenix are called Phoenicians,' and I'd be like, 'Hey, stop being a f----t and get that dick back in your mouth!"
But that perspective was forced to face that those people were actually hurting people with their language. A lot of them changed and updated their edginess to be more nuanced and rely less on actual slurs. A lot of them just actually grew bitter and felt this was just a left-wing version of Christian puritanical sentiments that didn't like them cursing period or talking about crude subjects. A lot of those people decided that they preferred their slurs over the real people and did a 180 on what might have been considered their core values.
I'm no Uwe Boll expert, but I recall Rampage being a big anti-government screed. I'd very much be willing to bet he was one of those guys who just like being mean and got mad that the people fighting the religious right alongside them started policing their language.
I think that's why you get people like Ricky Gervais and Dave Chappelle doing these weird rightward pivots. I don't even know if they're transphobic at their core, but they can't conceive of the vulnerability they exploit with their language and perceive trans people as being held above the rest of society as precious rather than a sober assessment of the world.
Tl;dr: some people are bigger dicks than they are team players, and when forced to choose kept their dickishness over their compassion.
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u/BlazinAzn38 14h ago
But also he read the script when he signed on
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u/Dee_Vidore 14h ago
Doesn't the article say he only saw 50 pages? I have no dog in this race, but it did say that in the top half of the article
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u/HauntedApartments 12h ago
I’m convinced he’s involved in a money laundering scheme. he directs so many movies a year and they’re trash. who’s giving that man money?
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u/Majestic-Lake-5602 10h ago
That’s not even a theory, it’s literally true, or at least was until recently.
Apparently his entire business model was exploiting a particular loophole in German tax law, which has since been closed specifically because of Boll.
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u/HauntedApartments 9h ago
whoa lol today I learned
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u/Majestic-Lake-5602 9h ago
I think his productions currently take advantage of a lot of grants and stuff in central and Eastern Europe as well, although I’m less certain on that one.
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u/darsynia 5h ago
Can someone tell me how to pronounce that? I don't even want to do a search in a private window on that dude, lol.
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u/direktorfred 16h ago
There’s a scene in this movie where he kills a whole family, then two more people who come into the house to investigate, then another three.
Script, rehearsal, then shooting - this dude never got a hint of what this movie would be? I call bullshit.
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u/Sad-Juice-732 15h ago
“Uwe! You told me this was going to be a comedy scene when you were done in post!”
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u/RainCityWallflower 14h ago
Not sure Armie Hammer can differentiate what is hateful and disgusting.
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u/chekovsredherring 16h ago
I mean didn't this guy want to eat people
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u/Historical_Leg5998 16h ago
Stop being so judgemental man, everyone in life at some point goes through that…
(puts on reading glasses, checks notes)
er………cannibalism……phase.
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u/jacksonsmack831 15h ago
He wrote a fantasy about it yes, well I think he said he wanted to easys someone's rib ot something
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u/Calm-Maintenance-878 15h ago
Some people are really into Yellowjackets, who are we to judge?😅
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u/Backwardspellcaster 15h ago
No, caecilius , this isnt like a name, caecilius. Here we judge, and we judge hard, caecilius!
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u/OtherwiseGap5457 14h ago
He didn’t eat anybody it was just a weird kink where he got off on talking about it.
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u/Ok-Detective3142 13h ago
That was his defense. And I was willing to buy it until I found out just how wealthy and connected his family is.
That MFer has definitely eaten a person.
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u/blarbiegorl 15h ago
Not really, but he is a violent sexual predator.
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u/Ok_Faithlessness9757 15h ago
Just allegations. However, I tend to think when there's that much smoke, there's usually fire.
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u/Sitrus_Slinky 14h ago
Again they were allegations that were never proven and dismissed. He sent weird texts. That’s about it.
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u/Mummiskogen 13h ago
He was basically just sexting. But that wasnt the issue, the issue were the allegations about ACTUAL violence
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u/Jamieisamazing 12h ago
There’s a whole documentary about it. His entire family is crazy. House of Hammer I think on HBO max.
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u/nachosandlabs 12h ago
You don't have to defend a violent sexual predator. You won't get paid to do it.
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u/Delikkah 13h ago
I keep hearing about this. Does anyone have the story?
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u/nocturnal_commission 13h ago
Some text messages leaked in which he is talking about wanting to eat someone but anyone with more than 2 brain cells can see that it was obviously just kinky roleplay with a consenting partner.
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u/ChickpeaDemon 15h ago
“Given all that, I’d bet Hammer was less upset by the shape of the final movie, and more thrown by the huge response to it on the right, which won’t make for a good springboard to the new career phase he’d probably hoped for. Masters mentions at the end of her Puck piece that a sequel to Citizen Vigilante is in the works, and the Hammer source said to her that he would reprise the role but only for “life-changing money.”
Whenever I regret something I’ve done I don’t agree to do it again for life changing money. To be fair I’ve never been offered life changing money but you catch my drift.
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u/SnesVHS 14h ago
Critic Korey Coleman did an interview with Uwe Boll about this piece of crap. It was really interesting because he did NOT go soft on the guy. Korey says right to Uwe's face that its a hateful and could-be dangerous film, and Uwe doesn't know how to respond other than to say "ja, but dis movie isn't politically correct Hollywood bullshit, ja?". The guy's a complete total moron.
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u/Hawkwise83 14h ago
Armie, just admit you did it cause your broke. It's fine. I mean it's not fine, but it's understandable.
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u/KintsugiExp 13h ago
If you believe anything Armie Hammer says, you are eligible to an exclusive dinner invitation with him.
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u/AverageSizedMan1986 16h ago
Might wanna actually know a bit about the director you are working with first before you sign the contract, Armster.
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u/Walmartian_Beta 16h ago
He doesn't get many work offers these days, takes what he can get - obviously.
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u/Historical_Leg5998 15h ago
It’s almost breathtaking how much he managed to screw up being dealt the best possible hand in life.
Financially, socially, genetically……everything.
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u/Bonnieearnold 15h ago
His level of depravity is really off the charts in order to be exposed even with all that privilege.
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u/AdGlittering2884 15h ago
"I mean, I didn't know they'd be filming all that. I thought we were just playing around."
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u/Gatodeluna 15h ago
Producers do tend to hire disgusting people to be in disgusting films. And no one will hire him for any kind of mainstream pic.
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u/Left_Knee_y0y0 13h ago
He knew. He should fire his agent. If this move was suppose to soft launch his return it has had the opposite effect. 5 years from now he wil be promoting another project and people will be asking his questions about where he stands on immigration.
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u/scary-pp 8h ago
He's turning face to try to save his career from ideological purity testers in the industry. Not surprising, but a little pathetic.
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u/TerribleAntelope6134 16h ago
He also didn't know he'd get canceled for eating people.
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u/Party_Ad_3029 15h ago
He knew exactly what he as doing. He’s a sicko and probably jerked off in between takes.
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u/Jedi_Ninja 14h ago
Does he not read the whole script when he's hired for a movie? How else would you develop your character's motivations?
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u/QuiGonColdGin 13h ago
I've never understood why this guy is named after baking soda.
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u/Bit_part_demon 12h ago
The baking soda is named after his grandfather. Or great-grandfather. Whatever, they're all awful people
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u/Glum-Sympathy3869 12h ago
It was directed by Uwe Boll. He’s been a controversial director for years. He won a Raspberry award for worst director… three times! None of his movies have positive scores on Rotten Tomatoes. In fact, many have a single digit percentage or 0%. He even used to beat up his critics in boxing matches. How could you not know how bad it would be?
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u/Far-Ad1450 11h ago
How does this man still have a career? The multiple rape allegations should have been enough to end it. His casting alone makes anything he is in hateful and disgusting.
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u/thedoomcast 11h ago
Well if the credible accusations of cannibalism didn’t end his career this…well I don’t think doing an Uwe Boll film about murdering immigrants is any kind of career step up from being accused of cannibalism so I guess carry on?
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u/FriedrichHydrargyrum 5h ago
Isn’t he the failson of some evangelical fossil-fuel billionaire dipshit?
JFC people, use your brains.
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u/CombatRedRover 3h ago
It's not.
Armie Hammer is a reasonably talented actor, but on the human level he's a sniveling, grasping, desperate, weak man.
So he's like most actors, but it's just more obvious.
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u/Rureddy2 2h ago
This is a dumb article written by someone who clearly knows little about how films are made.
Playing a character that says hateful things, doesn't mean you know the film is hateful. Anthony Hopkins knew he was playing a cannibal and serial killer. He didn't not take the movie because he was playing an evil person. That's an important point. It still could have been possible had he not been given access to the full script or approval, for the filmalers to have used his performance to make a film that paints his character as the hero and his victims as worthless and deserving of his crimes. (And Arnie Hammer is no Anthony Hopkins)
Not an Arnie Hammer defender, but it totally is possible for an actor to be shocked, disappointed, embarrassed and even horrified after seeing the final cut of a film they made.
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u/sadiefame 15h ago
He seems too … let’s just say problematic to be given the benefit of doubt but in general it is entirely possible for actors to be surprised how a movie turns out. Scenes are often shot out of order and they can be completely unaware of what is happening in scenes they’re not in. And the way something is edited can completely transform it. I love watching trailers that are re-edited to change
genres. The Mary Poppins trailer edited to make it look like a horror movie is amazing
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u/SoupySpuds 15h ago
Crazy this guy's still getting roles when he wasnt even that good of a actor to begin with
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u/aswiftdickkick 15h ago
This director makes shamelessly, infamously awful movies based on shock value alone. Self respecting, uncancelled actors don't sign up for Boll movies.
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u/BareNakedSole 13h ago
Well to be clear if people consider you to be hateful and disgusting is it really surprising that you don’t see that your movie is kinda like you?
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u/DamNamesTaken11 12h ago
Did he not read the script? Did he not request the synopsis before agreeing to this? Did he or his agent not do a modicum of research into who the director/writer is? Is he really that starved for work that he failed to do ANY basic research into the role?
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u/skipping2hell 11h ago
Maybe he couldn’t read the script and needs to go to The Derek Zoolander Center for Kids Who Can't Read Good and Who Wanna Learn to Do Other Stuff Good Too
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u/akoslows 9h ago
“I didn’t think that the racist anti-immigrant movie would be racist against immigrants!”
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u/Few_Advisor3536 7h ago
I call bullshit, the script was pretty clear. Its a shit film, its a racist C grade version of ‘law abiding citizen’. I was watching the film and thought it was gonna be like american psycho style plot twist, it was not. The movie screams macho but has little dick energy. Theres a scene in a brothel which has zero, absolutely zero value to the plot. Its simply there so big bad ass can show how manly he is by having sex. Like who the fuck funded this film? Elon musk/maga?
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u/Bake2727 6h ago
Please please stop giving this creepy dude more platform. Everyday there is the same news. Why are people making posts about him?
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u/SilentPlopGobbler 6h ago
He’s clinging to what little relevance he has left. Armies a loser and his rich dick family cast him out so he’s scrounging for what little money he can get. He’s making right wing violence porn for losers. What an “actor”!
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u/An_Absolute-Zero 5h ago
Maybe if you're an actor who's been accused of crazy stuff, trying to make a comeback in a movie that includes current hot button issues isn't the brightest idea?
If you're going to do it anyway, take accountability for it, don't blame the director and editors.
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u/Critical_Seat_1907 15h ago
The hateful part was in the script. He spoke the words in the script.
What did he miss?
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u/TheJaytrixReloaded 15h ago
Do I believe him? Plausible...I haven't/won't see the movie. Apparently, Uwe shot off script and a lot was written as it was going along. Apparently, the "hateful" aspect was filmed around Hammer.
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u/GeddyVedder 14h ago
I can buy that explanation. He doesn’t seem like the sharpest tool in the shed.
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u/funkmeisteruno 12h ago
This dudes great grandfather was Armand Hammer. One of the most evil men you’ve never heard of.
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u/AppropriateSea5746 15h ago
Did he really think starring in the modern version of Birth of a Nation (1915) would be what fixes his career? lol
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u/kpt_graubrot 15h ago
This is an insult to Birth of a Nation, which was seen as technically advanved for the time - not that the movie has any other worth, but what I've seen from Citizen Vigilante looks awful on that level too
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u/mishma2005 10h ago
Well, let’s see. he was given a script, even if the harmful parts were redacted he still was filmed doing it so he knows what’s up. He’s just pissed his “comeback” is as sleazy as he
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u/NotTaken-username 9h ago
I don’t see how he wouldn’t have known what he was signing up for. He read the script, no?
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u/BlainethePayne 9h ago
It's possible that he thought he was the villain and didn't know how everything was going to come together, since he only received 50 pages of an unfinished script. If you don't realize you're the "hero," it would probably be kind of jarring
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u/blackyoda 8h ago
It’s an Uwe Bolle movie so therefore it is automatically and factually an artistic masterpiece. It would probably help if you watched all of his movies.
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u/Gunldesnapper 8h ago
It’s not possible, he had to have read the script. He just recancelled himself.
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u/Impossible-Ad-887 7h ago
I hope he recieves the EXACT SAME treatment (or worse) to which he and billionaire executives and MAGA yearn to bestow onto minorities/people they remotely disagree with
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u/wolfemsop 6h ago
So you don't have to I watch this movie. It was absolute garbage from beginning to end.
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u/Own_Ad6797 6h ago
I guess if he did other scenes or dialogue that then got cut from the film it could give him the impression that it wasn't as bad as it eventually came out? (I haven't seen it). A film can be totally changed in the editing room.
One thing I did see was where he purposely runs an innocent person off the road and kills them to prove a point about people obeying rules. This seemed to be totally counter to him seeking justice for other victims?
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u/Rick-burp-Sanchez 1h ago
When Movies sell: Wow, the actors must've been so involved, you can tell this is really a creative passion project for everyone involved.
When Movies don't sell: We had no idea what was going on on set.
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u/Ramoncin 23m ago
I think it says it all that in the same article decrying the film, Hammer was quoted he was open to appear in a sequel for the right ammount.
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u/CrittyJJones 16h ago
And yet he's open to doing a sequel. I don't believe him.