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Tom Cruise's new movie Digger is splitting critics and audiences right down the center, just like the iceberg in the movie.
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But has Tom Cruise dug his own grave with his acting career on this one?
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Alright, alright, alright.
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So welcome back to DMR.
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Thank you for tuning back in as always.
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Much obliged.
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I hope you enjoyed my review for the film, which is Brad Pitt's new one called Heart of the Beast, which came out last week.
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That's up on Apple Spotify.
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Now, if you haven't caught it, go back and watch that one or listen to it at your leisure.
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So I am again again hot out of the cinema with a movie that is literally it's all over the place in terms of the ratings for the scores from the critics and the audience.
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It's none other than Tom Cruise in the film Digger.
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So Digger has been brewing for a number of months now.
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When I first saw the trailer for this, I was super intrigued.
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Very much intrigued about this because this movie basically looked like and felt like this was a Les Grossman Tom Cruise film that we never got.
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If you don't know who Les Grossman is, go back and watch Tropic Thunder.
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He had a small part in that movie of a film tycoon, and it was an amazing role, very, very short, but very, very funny.
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So when I saw the trailer with this, I thought, okay, we're in for a bit of a ride here with Tom Cruise.
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The guy does have range.
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A lot of people say that he doesn't have range, but here we are.
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So this film, let's go over it and discuss it in depth.
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Because as I said at the start, this is really going to split audiences right down the middle.
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You're gonna love this film or you're gonna hate it.
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Alright, so let's go on to Rotten Tomatoes and have a little bit of a look at the score.
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So it's only dropped a couple of days ago.
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So the critics have basically slammed this film, and what I like about this particular film is that you've got a massive divide between what the critics say and what the audience say.
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So the critics have basically come in at a splat, which is 52%, and the audience score has come in at 72%, which is quite healthy.
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It's quite healthy for the audience.
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And as I said, I love these films because it's a massive divide between the two of them.
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So the synopsis for Digger basically reads here the most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.
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So that's pretty much it in a nutshell to a degree.
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So Cruz plays the oil tycoon, billionaire, true in there.
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He's one of the richest men in the world, and his name is Digger Rockwell.
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He plays Digger extremely well.
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Tom Cruise is the best part of this movie, obviously.
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He's the main character in this particular film, but every scene that he is in, he absolutely steals the show.
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He's in his 60s.
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I think I saw a meme where it basically said that he's a 63-year-old playing a 64-year-old, and they had the two side by side, obviously, him with makeup and obviously normal Tom Cruise.
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So he's playing someone that's his age, but he looks very, very old and ragged and whatnot in this particular film.
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So going over who the cast and the crew are, please hold while your call is transferred.
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And this is interesting as well.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, I've noticed this with The Heart of the Beast, is that not all of the actors are named with their actual character names.
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So we've got here with the director, which is Aljandro Gonzalez, he's the director of this particular film.
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Then you've got Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell, you've also got Riz Armoured, you've got John Goodman, John Goodman plays the president of the USA.
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You've got Sandra Houler as well, you've also got Michael Stunbarg in this film.
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I'll get back to or hopefully see what the actors or the characters' names are for this particular one.
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But basically, the film kicks off, and I've got to dance around spoilers here as much as I can.
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So the film kicks off with we're introduced to Digger Rockwell, and he's got a cat which is one hairball away or sneeze away from dying.
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This thing is well passed as it's used by date.
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He loves this ridiculous cat.
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The puppetry in it is fantastic, and the relationship between him and this particular dying cat is really, really good to see up on the screen.
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So you see that relationship right off the bat, and then all hell breaks loose.
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So he's basically got a oil rig in Greenland, I think it was.
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Yep, Greenland.
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And he's one of these tycoons where he's being fed information, and he just wants to get to the coin of it all, and all hell starts breaking loose.
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There is a massive explosion.
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I'm gonna dance around the spoils, as I said, massive explosion in this particular oil drill, and a massive iceberg breaks off and starts heading towards Europe.
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Now, all of his people that he works with or work they work for him were basically sending him emails and warnings about this particular danger, and it's really not looking good for Digger Rockwell throughout the film.
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So all the supporting cars do a very good job in this particular film, but I really did love to see what happened with Tom Cruise as this film particularly rolls on or gets further down the track.
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He plays him very, very well, very, very well.
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So let's keep going through it.
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I'm gonna address something that is massive in this film, and I'm gonna again not go into too much detail because it will wreck it for you.
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So don't go into this film thinking that it's just gonna be what you're seeing in the trailer.
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I was fine with that.
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I was more than happy to stick to that particular narrative or theme, but something very, very big happens about half an hour into the film, and audiences are either gonna be on board with it, stick with it, and wait to see what happens towards the end of the film, or they're gonna absolutely hate it, not know where the film is going, and be disconnected from it.
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So you have been warned.
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I'm not gonna go into what it is exactly, and until the end of the film, I really did feel that it paid off.
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So you've also got Emma Darcy in this film as well, she has a great role, she obviously she's out of House of the Dragon, but it's up to Digger to basically get the world out of this mess.
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You hear John Goodman in the trailer basically saying, Digger Rockwell got us into this mess, and Digger's gonna dig us out.
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And I loved where it kind of rolled from there with all the different ideas.
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There's a lot of capitalism, corporate America, toxic work environments that are explored in this film.
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You've also got Jesse Plymouth, I think so you say his last name in or Plymouth.
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I'll have to go back and have a look at it.
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He's in this film as well.
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He plays a pretty good role in a short role, but good nonetheless.
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So when you watch this film, it's over, I think it's just over two hours long.
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Let's have a look at the runtime quickly.
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We'll go back here, have a look what we got here.
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Yes, we've got two hours and nine minutes, and it's an R rating in America, and here in Australia, it's MA 15 Plus, which was good because you see Digger Rockwell basically spitting off a lot of swear words from time to time.
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Loves a bit of a drink as well.
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He also has a pretty cool backstory about his family and the oil merchants and how they came to be.
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He's got a shovel that's put up on one of his mantelpieces in his mansion.
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But all in all, it's a pretty cool story for most of the film.
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Most of the film.
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So let's go through it one final time with my verdict on what I think I felt with this.
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Again, I'm only a few hours out of it.
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So it's still kind of settling in the brain about what I actually witnessed with Tom Cruise's new one.
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But let's go.
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Let's let's give it the verdict, shall we?
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Alright, so digger with Tom Cruise.
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The runtime on it is very, very fair.
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The cinematography in it is absolutely phenomenal.
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Everything looks amazing.
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There's a lot of like 1970s colouring in it, pastels and whatnot, that sometimes it's very bland to look at, other times it's very rich.
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But the cinematographer did a fantastic job with this particular film.
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Again, Tom Cruise is amazing in it.
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I feel he's the best part of this film.
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And is he going to be Oscar worthy?
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I'm not entirely sure.
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All of the other actors that are in the film, the supporting cars, they do a very good job in it as well.
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Again, runtime, very fair, just over two hours, so it's not a slog.
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But when it comes to the way this story is put up on the screen in terms of what happens in it, you've got a lot of corporate America.
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There's also a lot of climate change scenarios that are in this film where you've got what happens.
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Good question in this film that they actually raise is that what happens if humanity actually stops burning or going through all their fossil fuel reserves and then switch over to renewables?
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And that's a big message that Digger has in this movie is that you guys want me to drill deep, deep down.
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You absolutely need me to drill because if we turn off the oil and turn off the power and go for all your renewables, the lights are gonna go out and every humanity is gonna suffer.
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It's kind of what's that old question?
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What came first, the chicken or the egg?
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So, depending on what side of the climate change argument that you're on, you're either gonna love it or hate it because there's pro-climate change activists, and there's also corporate America that just basically says, no, no, we're gonna keep doing what we're doing.
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So, again, with the surprise in this film, there is a big payoff at the end of it.
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So, stick around past the credits, the end credits as well, right to the very end, in terms of what this risky film does and how it all kind of winds up at the end.
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I'm gonna give it my rating in terms of they've got a few ratings, which number one rating is basically go and see the movie and and pay that ticket stuff and grab that popcorn.
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The second one is buy it on Blu-ray or 4k, third one is wait for streaming, fourth one is it'll be better at 2 a.m.
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if you had a couple of beers, and then the last one is it's absolute crap.
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So I don't know if I'm gonna rate this particular film.
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I'm just gonna say go and see it and make up your own mind about it.
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I'm probably gonna have a few more weeks about if I do like this film or not, but I feel that the risk that does take during the film it does pay off in the end.
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It's a big, big surprise, and again, some people are gonna love it, some people are not gonna like it at all.
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In terms of Tom Cruise himself, he's very, very good up on the screen with the different roles that he can play, especially I've been following his career since the 90s.
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With if you haven't seen a film called Interview with the Vampire, he's Brad Pitts in that as well.
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It's one of the best vampires, if not the best vampire film that's ever been made.
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Go back and check that out.
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He's a phenomenal actor, and I think he nails Digger very, very well here.
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So that's my review for Digger.
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Again, go and check it out.
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It's a pretty risky, quirky film that has a lot of political jargon that's thrown at you, it's got a lot of climate change issues, it's a bit of a dark comedy action film, and it's very loud at times.
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So I actually saw it in a V Max cinema, and at times it was bloody loud.
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But I enjoyed it.
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I enjoyed it.
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It's not for everyone, but I feel go and check it out.
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It's just come out the cinema.
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Tom Cruise's new movie Digger is splitting critics and audiences right down the center, just like the iceberg in the movie.
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But has Tom Cruise dug his own grave with his acting career on this one?
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Alright, alright, alright.
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So welcome back to DMR.
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Thank you for tuning back in as always.
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Much obliged.
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I hope you enjoyed my review for the film, which is Brad Pitt's new one called Heart of the Beast, which came out last week.
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That's up on Apple Spotify.
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Now, if you haven't caught it, go back and watch that one or listen to it at your leisure.
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So I am again again hot out of the cinema with a movie that is literally it's all over the place in terms of the ratings for the scores from the critics and the audience.
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It's none other than Tom Cruise in the film Digger.
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So Digger has been brewing for a number of months now.
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When I first saw the trailer for this, I was super intrigued.
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Very much intrigued about this because this movie basically looked like and felt like this was a Les Grossman Tom Cruise film that we never got.
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If you don't know who Les Grossman is, go back and watch Tropic Thunder.
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He had a small part in that movie of a film tycoon, and it was an amazing role, very, very short, but very, very funny.
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So when I saw the trailer with this, I thought, okay, we're in for a bit of a ride here with Tom Cruise.
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The guy does have range.
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A lot of people say that he doesn't have range, but here we are.
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So this film, let's go over it and discuss it in depth.
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Because as I said at the start, this is really going to split audiences right down the middle.
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You're gonna love this film or you're gonna hate it.
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Alright, so let's go on to Rotten Tomatoes and have a little bit of a look at the score.
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So it's only dropped a couple of days ago.
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So the critics have basically slammed this film, and what I like about this particular film is that you've got a massive divide between what the critics say and what the audience say.
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So the critics have basically come in at a splat, which is 52%, and the audience score has come in at 72%, which is quite healthy.
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It's quite healthy for the audience.
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And as I said, I love these films because it's a massive divide between the two of them.
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So the synopsis for Digger basically reads here the most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity's saviour before the disaster he's unleashed destroys everything.
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So that's pretty much it in a nutshell to a degree.
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So Cruz plays the oil tycoon, billionaire, true in there.
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He's one of the richest men in the world, and his name is Digger Rockwell.
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He plays Digger extremely well.
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Tom Cruise is the best part of this movie, obviously.
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He's the main character in this particular film, but every scene that he is in, he absolutely steals the show.
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He's in his 60s.
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I think I saw a meme where it basically said that he's a 63-year-old playing a 64-year-old, and they had the two side by side, obviously, him with makeup and obviously normal Tom Cruise.
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So he's playing someone that's his age, but he looks very, very old and ragged and whatnot in this particular film.
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So going over who the cast and the crew are, please hold while your call is transferred.
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And this is interesting as well.
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On Rotten Tomatoes, I've noticed this with The Heart of the Beast, is that not all of the actors are named with their actual character names.
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So we've got here with the director, which is Aljandro Gonzalez, he's the director of this particular film.
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Then you've got Tom Cruise as Digger Rockwell, you've also got Riz Armoured, you've got John Goodman, John Goodman plays the president of the USA.
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You've got Sandra Houler as well, you've also got Michael Stunbarg in this film.
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I'll get back to or hopefully see what the actors or the characters' names are for this particular one.
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But basically, the film kicks off, and I've got to dance around spoilers here as much as I can.
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So the film kicks off with we're introduced to Digger Rockwell, and he's got a cat which is one hairball away or sneeze away from dying.
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This thing is well passed as it's used by date.
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He loves this ridiculous cat.
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The puppetry in it is fantastic, and the relationship between him and this particular dying cat is really, really good to see up on the screen.
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So you see that relationship right off the bat, and then all hell breaks loose.
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So he's basically got a oil rig in Greenland, I think it was.
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Yep, Greenland.
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And he's one of these tycoons where he's being fed information, and he just wants to get to the coin of it all, and all hell starts breaking loose.
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There is a massive explosion.
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I'm gonna dance around the spoils, as I said, massive explosion in this particular oil drill, and a massive iceberg breaks off and starts heading towards Europe.
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Now, all of his people that he works with or work they work for him were basically sending him emails and warnings about this particular danger, and it's really not looking good for Digger Rockwell throughout the film.
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So all the supporting cars do a very good job in this particular film, but I really did love to see what happened with Tom Cruise as this film particularly rolls on or gets further down the track.
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He plays him very, very well, very, very well.
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So let's keep going through it.
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I'm gonna address something that is massive in this film, and I'm gonna again not go into too much detail because it will wreck it for you.
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So don't go into this film thinking that it's just gonna be what you're seeing in the trailer.
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I was fine with that.
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I was more than happy to stick to that particular narrative or theme, but something very, very big happens about half an hour into the film, and audiences are either gonna be on board with it, stick with it, and wait to see what happens towards the end of the film, or they're gonna absolutely hate it, not know where the film is going, and be disconnected from it.
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So you have been warned.
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I'm not gonna go into what it is exactly, and until the end of the film, I really did feel that it paid off.
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So you've also got Emma Darcy in this film as well, she has a great role, she obviously she's out of House of the Dragon, but it's up to Digger to basically get the world out of this mess.
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You hear John Goodman in the trailer basically saying, Digger Rockwell got us into this mess, and Digger's gonna dig us out.
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And I loved where it kind of rolled from there with all the different ideas.
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There's a lot of capitalism, corporate America, toxic work environments that are explored in this film.
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You've also got Jesse Plymouth, I think so you say his last name in or Plymouth.
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I'll have to go back and have a look at it.
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He's in this film as well.
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He plays a pretty good role in a short role, but good nonetheless.
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So when you watch this film, it's over, I think it's just over two hours long.
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Let's have a look at the runtime quickly.
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We'll go back here, have a look what we got here.
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Please hold while your call is transferred.
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Yes, we've got two hours and nine minutes, and it's an R rating in America, and here in Australia, it's MA 15 Plus, which was good because you see Digger Rockwell basically spitting off a lot of swear words from time to time.
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Loves a bit of a drink as well.
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He also has a pretty cool backstory about his family and the oil merchants and how they came to be.
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He's got a shovel that's put up on one of his mantelpieces in his mansion.
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But all in all, it's a pretty cool story for most of the film.
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Most of the film.
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So let's go through it one final time with my verdict on what I think I felt with this.
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Again, I'm only a few hours out of it.
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So it's still kind of settling in the brain about what I actually witnessed with Tom Cruise's new one.
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But let's go.
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Let's let's give it the verdict, shall we?
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Alright, so digger with Tom Cruise.
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The runtime on it is very, very fair.
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The cinematography in it is absolutely phenomenal.
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Everything looks amazing.
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There's a lot of like 1970s colouring in it, pastels and whatnot, that sometimes it's very bland to look at, other times it's very rich.
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But the cinematographer did a fantastic job with this particular film.
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Again, Tom Cruise is amazing in it.
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I feel he's the best part of this film.
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And is he going to be Oscar worthy?
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I'm not entirely sure.
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All of the other actors that are in the film, the supporting cars, they do a very good job in it as well.
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Again, runtime, very fair, just over two hours, so it's not a slog.
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But when it comes to the way this story is put up on the screen in terms of what happens in it, you've got a lot of corporate America.
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There's also a lot of climate change scenarios that are in this film where you've got what happens.
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Good question in this film that they actually raise is that what happens if humanity actually stops burning or going through all their fossil fuel reserves and then switch over to renewables?
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And that's a big message that Digger has in this movie is that you guys want me to drill deep, deep down.
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You absolutely need me to drill because if we turn off the oil and turn off the power and go for all your renewables, the lights are gonna go out and every humanity is gonna suffer.
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It's kind of what's that old question?
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What came first, the chicken or the egg?
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So, depending on what side of the climate change argument that you're on, you're either gonna love it or hate it because there's pro-climate change activists, and there's also corporate America that just basically says, no, no, we're gonna keep doing what we're doing.
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So, again, with the surprise in this film, there is a big payoff at the end of it.
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So, stick around past the credits, the end credits as well, right to the very end, in terms of what this risky film does and how it all kind of winds up at the end.
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I'm gonna give it my rating in terms of they've got a few ratings, which number one rating is basically go and see the movie and and pay that ticket stuff and grab that popcorn.
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The second one is buy it on Blu-ray or 4k, third one is wait for streaming, fourth one is it'll be better at 2 a.m.
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if you had a couple of beers, and then the last one is it's absolute crap.
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So I don't know if I'm gonna rate this particular film.
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I'm just gonna say go and see it and make up your own mind about it.
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I'm probably gonna have a few more weeks about if I do like this film or not, but I feel that the risk that does take during the film it does pay off in the end.
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It's a big, big surprise, and again, some people are gonna love it, some people are not gonna like it at all.
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In terms of Tom Cruise himself, he's very, very good up on the screen with the different roles that he can play, especially I've been following his career since the 90s.
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With if you haven't seen a film called Interview with the Vampire, he's Brad Pitts in that as well.
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It's one of the best vampires, if not the best vampire film that's ever been made.
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Go back and check that out.
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He's a phenomenal actor, and I think he nails Digger very, very well here.
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So that's my review for Digger.
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Again, go and check it out.
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It's a pretty risky, quirky film that has a lot of political jargon that's thrown at you, it's got a lot of climate change issues, it's a bit of a dark comedy action film, and it's very loud at times.
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So I actually saw it in a V Max cinema, and at times it was bloody loud.
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But I enjoyed it.
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I enjoyed it.
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It's not for everyone, but I feel go and check it out.
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It's just come out the cinema.
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