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DIGGER is not at all what it seems on the surface. What begins as an over-the-top comedy of gigantic satirical proportions suddenly turns into a meta, somber commentary on the bleak state of the world we’re inevitably heading toward, our inability to stop it, and what we’ll likely do in its aftermath. This is Tom Cruise’s most dynamic and interesting role in years, and it provides him plenty of space to preach to the back row but not enough to dig deeper and deliver a performance that could’ve had far more power and nuance had Alejandro González Iñárritu’s ambitious split narrative not been so imbalanced in favor of its zany but empty theatrics. Nobody else is given enough material to fully flesh out their characters either, leaving us with a highly cinematic (The production design, cinematography, sound, and makeup are all aces), bizarre, self-admittedly unfunny, and boisterous warning about the current state of the world, but with not enough depth or humanity to help us care or make any sense of it. Less of a bang and more of a hollow misfire.