The Ending Of Tom Cruise's Digger Explained
Critics say the $125 million satire turns on a climate disaster and ends with a suicide that draws cheers from the audience.
- Tom Cruise stars in director Alejandro González Iñárritu's new film "Digger," a $125 million production depicting oil tycoon Digger Rockwell confronting a climate catastrophe as an Arctic ice shelf threatens Europe.
- About 30 minutes into the film, the narrative shifts to reveal the story is a dress rehearsal for a play titled "Fossil Fools," where every cast member performs a dual role as both character and actor.
- Kenny Rockwell, the nephew of Digger Rockwell, funded the production by purchasing the play's rights. Critics describe the performance as a "brutal condemnation of late-stage capitalism."
- The film concludes with one of the bleakest endings in recent studio history, as audiences wearing high-tech air-filter masks step out into a smog-filled New York dystopia.
- Tracking as a box office flop, the film is expected to open as low as $9 million in the U.S., with critics torn between admiring its audacious ambition and rejecting its political satire.
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