[Satire] Review: Boldly Comic 'Digger' Shows Tom Cruise Is More than a Mere Action Hero
Cruise plays a Southern oil tycoon whose response to a Greenland ice-shelf crisis turns into a darkly comic critique of power and climate denial.
- Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu released Digger, a climate-satire starring Tom Cruise as a brash oil tycoon in a "big, showy apocalypse comedy that matches and even one-ups the performer's outsize energy."
- At 64, Cruise portrays the portly Digger Rockwell using prosthetics, a performance critics describe as "brave" in departing from his typical action-hero roles.
- Cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki captures the narrative alongside an ensemble including John Goodman and Riz Ahmed, while sound editors Mike Horton and Lloyd Dudley ensure dialogue remains clear throughout.
- The narrative features an astonishing showpiece updating the "greed is good" speech for modern audiences, as Iñárritu and co-writers deliver farcical dialogue critics suggest may spark Oscar-worthiness debates.
- Comparisons to Dr. Strangelove and Don't Look Up exemplify the film's caricature of power, positioning it as a "moving love letter to the endurance and relevance of art.
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The film's premise seems almost deliberately ridiculous at first glance, but the interesting thing is that Iñárritu doesn't just let it play out as a comedy. Digger's personality is marked by a certain arrogance. He has amassed so much wealth and power that even the long-term consequences of his actions seem to him merely an inconvenience, not a true tragedy.
How About That Movie? Tom's insane acting... Are you still not going to give him an Oscar? The movie *Digger*. Hello, this is Shin Jeong-seon, a reporter from the Culture Department of the Chosun Ilbo. The 234th letter of *How About That Movie* is about Tom Cruise's new film, *Digger*, which opens on Saturday, the 3rd. I originally intended to send you as much love as possible, but I changed my mind after watching *Digger*.
With the leading role in the shrill satire of Alejandro González Iñárritu, the US superstar is reaching for the Oscars – as a baric resource magnate who does not stop even from deep drilling in Greenland. With apocalyptic consequences.
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