Musk Posts Hammer's 'Citizen Vigilante' on X for 48 Hours
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- Elon Musk posted Armie Hammer's "Citizen Vigilante" to his X account on Friday, making the controversial indie-actioner available to his 240 million followers.
- The streaming link was active for approximately 48 hours before going dark on Saturday.
- Uwe Boll, a 60-year-old German filmmaker, directed and wrote the film.
- Deadline's headline adds that the film is "German-Banned," a distribution-restriction angle the main report does not elaborate on.
- Armie Hammer stars in the project — a comeback vehicle that has drawn controversy separate from Musk's amplification.
Why it matters: Musk leveraged X's 240-million-follower reach to amplify a film whose distribution has been restricted — Deadline flags it as German-banned — effectively turning the platform into a temporary workaround streaming channel for controversial content before the link disappeared within 48 hours.
