If you can’t defeat them, satirise them – this attitude towards the enemies of the environment has been embraced by filmmakers. Snowpiercer, Don’t Look Up and Mickey 17 have all mined comedy out of melting icecaps and vanishing habitats. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarittu’s Digger joins the doomsday club with a wildly swinging, noisy shovel.
The film stars a bunch of excellent actors audibly chomping on the scenery, led by a ravenous Tom Cruise. Having saved the world umpteen times, Cruise entertainingly plays a mega-agent of mass destruction.
Cruise is oil baron Digger Rockwell, so powerful that he has the American president in one pocket and the world’s fate in the other. When a methane-breathing block of ice the size of a small country breaks off at a rig owned by the tycoon, Digger digs in his heels.
The sepulchral President Compson (John Goodman) and his thick-headed team comprising military officers and a priest back the “Drill, baby, drill” billionaire. Digger’s environmental security chief Ganesh (Riz Ahmed), who clearly hasn’t understood his assignment, protests loudly and futilely.
Digger’s sister Emma (Sandra Huller) and secretary Lina (Emma D’Arcy) try to keep pace with the increasingly defiant and delusional Digger. Viewers too might have a tough time adjusting to the film’s extra-large, super-thin satire and the theatrical mugging,...
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