In Citizen Vigilante, Armie Hammer plays Sanders, a former US soldier who has inherited his father’s real estate empire in an unnamed European country. Angered by what he sees as a Muslim takeover of the continent, Sanders embarks on an extrajudicial killing spree of migrants, youths, and judges he views as complicit.

In the film, Hammer’s character is emboldened by watching videoclips from an Instagram-like social media platform showing people around the world praising his violent campaign against immigrants.

“Have you heard of this vigilante crime fighter guy over in Europe? He’s like the real deal. This man is taking out the trash,” one woman says in a clip from the movie, adding, “I think we need somebody over here in the States like that.”

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

In the weeks since the movie was released, white supremacists and other extremists have praised the movie’s message and claimed that it can act like a playbook to follow in real life. “Maybe violence against migrants is what is needed,” wrote one member of a far-right channel discussing the film. “It's the only way. They have no remorse. They want you dead,” another wrote in response.

The movie repeats the baseless great replacement conspiracy theory that Muslim immigrants have overrun the entire continent, and it was widely panned by critics who called it “astonishingly bad” and “racist, xenophobic, ethnocentrist, alt-right agitprop.” ...