Citizen Vigilante

Plot Summary

• In an unnamed European city, a young mother is fatally stabbed in front of her son for no reason by a passing African migrant who flees from the scene. A news report states that parents are afraid to let their children play outside and that women avoid going out after dark.Michael Sanders (Armie Hammer) is a former U.S. Army officer who moved to Europe after inheriting his estranged father's real estate business. He secretly operates as the Vigilante Citizen, a ruthless vigilante who targets those who have escaped justice. While much of the public praises his actions on TikTok and other social media platforms, the local police, led by Interpol Chief Henry (Costas Mandylor), are determined to arrest him for they are under intense pressure by government officials to focus all their resources to capturing the unknown vigilante by publicly stating that vigilantism will not be tolerated under any circumstances.After killing a trio of Russian racketeers, Sanders confronts several fare-dodging teenage thugs on a bus. He pays their fares so the journey can continue, but lectures them about the impact of their behavior on society.Later, at a hospital, Sanders visits Elsa (Desiree Giorgetti), a rape victim who was severely beaten during her attack. He offers her a choice: pursue justice through the courts... with no guarantee of success, or endorse his intervention. She chooses to support him.Henry later asks Elsa for a description of her visitor, but she deliberately provides one that does not match Sanders.During a meeting with his business manager, Sanders orders the eviction of non-paying migrant tenants and vows to oppose government efforts to seize vacant properties for migrant housing.Suspicious of Sanders, Henry surveys a nightclub Sanders frequents. There, he watches Sanders switch the drinks of two men with the drugged beverages they had intended for their dates. Henry collects a drinking glass that Sanders used to obtain his DNA. After linking Sanders to the vigilante, Henry leads a Special Intervention Unit team to apprehend him. Sanders barricades himself inside an armored container and warns the officers to leave. The officers open fire, prompting Sanders to kill them before making his escape. An explosive booby-trap injures Henry. A subsequent news report suggests that rising crime and associated costs may necessitate a reassessment of migration policies.Sanders later meets a teenage rape victim whose six Arab migrant attackers were released without punishment because Judge Reinhold, the presiding liberal judge in the case, considered them to be victims too (citing their difficulties integrating into society). The teenage victim tells Sanders that she has been denied justice. Sanders kills Reinhold and stages it as a suicide. The police later link the incident to multiple unexplained deaths involving liberal and activist judges letting criminals go with no accountability or trial.While walking through a park, Sanders encounters the same thugs from the bus harassing a man for no reason. He crushes the hands of the two male assailants before warning them never to repeat their behavior.Sanders visits the home of Yusuf, one of the rapists, and takes him and his family hostage. As Yusuf's relatives excuse his actions and blame the victim, Sanders orders Yusuf to summon his accomplices to the apartment. Once they arrive, Sanders executes Yusuf, his parents, and the other attackers.Sanders calls the hospitalized Henry and tells him to inform the government that the public will not tolerate a takeover by the woke left and Islamist extremists that will destroy democracy. He warns that the government must stop it or the people will do so themselves. Henry arranges to address the press because the prime minister will not listen to him.(Note: It is strongly implied that the country's prime minister and most liberal government officials in this and other countries deliberately want uncontrolled and illegal immigration in their country and other countries for a variety of reasons ranging from cheap labor and to filling their voter base in order to keep themselves in office... and in power.)At home, the teenage victim learns that her attackers are dead and smiles in satisfaction.In the final scene, a scrambled video message from Sanders is broadcast, declaring that his work will continue until the citizens learn to defend themselves with their own vigilante justice.

Storyline

• A man takes justice into his own hands, hunting down criminals. His vigilante crusade makes him a social media star but puts him at odds with the local police chief.