Movie review: ‘Digger’ is a blockbuster-sized waste of a carbon footprint
Summary
Digger is a self-serious, visually loud satire that turns out to be a rehearsal for a play called Fossil Fools, centered on a fossil-fuel tycoon whose recklessness triggers an apocalypse. Despite strong performances, the film is criticized as shallow, repetitive, and a wasted blockbuster-sized effort.
Key Points
- Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s Digger is framed as a rehearsal for the play Fossil Fools, exposing its theatrical conceit a third of the way through the film.
- The story centers on fossil-fuel baron Digger Rockwell and a climate apocalypse triggered by his extraction rigs in Greenland and Alaska.
- Tom Cruise, Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, and Jesse Plemons are singled out for performances that are limited by the film’s heavy-handed satire.
- The reviewer calls the $125 million production overblown, obvious, and ultimately a waste of its carbon footprint.
