Tom Cruise’s Digger is a commercial flop – but also the perfect climate film for our time
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Key context: <p>The movie follows Digger Rockwell, whose drilling triggers a vast iceberg that’s five times the size of Washington DC</p><p>Digger, the new Alejandro González Iñárritu film, is bombastic, misanthropic and an epic, critically savaged flop. It is also the near-perfect climate change film for our era.</p><p>Digger Rockwell, the eponymous protagonist played by Tom Cruise, is a bluntly caricatured Texas oilman blase about the environmental ruin of his drilling, even as it triggers a disastrous splitting of the Arctic ice sheet. This causes a vast iceberg, five times the size of Washington DC, to barrel towards Europe and threaten a devastating tsunami.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/oct/20/tom-cruise-digger-climate-film">Continue reading...</a> This development from The Guardian highlights ongoing changes in the sector.
The movie follows Digger Rockwell, whose drilling triggers a vast iceberg that’s five times the size of Washington DCDigger, the new Alejandro González Iñárritu film, is bombastic, misanthropic and an epic, critically savaged flop. It is also the near-perfect climate change film for our era.Digger Rockwell, the eponymous protagonist played by Tom Cruise, is a bluntly caricatured Texas oilman blase about the environmental ruin of his drilling, even as it triggers a disastrous splitting of the Arctic ice sheet. This causes a vast iceberg, five times the size of Washington DC, to barrel towards Europe and threaten a devastating tsunami. Continue reading...
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