A critique of power, its destructive excess, and those who cling to its bounty
Tom Cruise plays Curtis as Digger Rockwell in “Digger,” holding the ten-cent shovel his wildcatter grandfather used to build the family’s enormous wealth. (Courtesy of Warner Bros. Pictures)
Spoiler Alert: This review discusses the film’s ending.
Screen Time with Melodie Miller, a review column that looks beyond the trailer and connects audiences to movie perspectives.
In Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s “Digger,” Tom Cruise trades stunts for self-reckoning. Cruise plays Curtis, a community theater actor who plays Digger, an oil baron who saves no one but himself. Iñárritu stages an apocalyptic play, “Fossil Fools,” within the surreal world of the film.
Screen Time gives the film a Melodious Thumbs Up. Cruise and Riz Ahmed earn praise for their performances as men opposed in their ideals but yoked and compromised by lies.
If you are looking for truths without chases, read the full story at the CU Independent. Decide whether the film rises to meet the review.
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