It’s as if a film school freshman who’d spent their whole life watching Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Wes Anderson movies announced, “I could do that—with $175 million.” Across the board, everything about Digger is hacky and lifted from much better movies. It’s the kind of movie someone makes when they’re trying very hard to look cool and weird. It’s the artistic equivalent of that kid who shows up first year in his shiny new DMs and his Joy Division T-shirt and demands to be worshipped. Alejandro Iñárritu (who made the edgy Oscar-bait movie where Leonardo DiCaprio fights a bear—you heard me, a BEAR!!) and fellow pretentious, fake weirdo director Yorgos Lanthimos could start a fan club for hacky/phony surrealist rip-offs of Brazil. Digger is pretentious to its absolute core. That said, teeny-tiny kudos for trying to say something about the murder of the environment, even if Tom Cruise’s two-dimensional oil tycoon is on par with the Rich Texan (Richard “Rich” Texan) from The Simpsons. But maybe that’s the point, because (** spoiler alert **) Cruise is actually playing a bad actor playing a caricature of an oil tycoon. So deep! Anyway, this thing is bombing. So, if you want to see it in theaters, get going. Tom’s a-wastin’!
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