Tom Cruise’s Digger Turns Climate Crisis Into Audacious Satire

Digger is a movie about a very rich oil businessman named Digger Rockwell.

One of his oil rigs explodes, helping cause a huge climate disaster that could badly affect Europe.

Tom Cruise plays Rockwell as an older, selfish man instead of as a heroic action character.

Rockwell first tries to avoid responsibility, but later thinks about admitting what he has done.

A scientist named Ganesh keeps warning leaders about the danger.

The president and other powerful people care more about politics, image and control than solving the crisis.

The movie makes fun of rich people, politicians and other groups that ignore serious problems.

It is told partly like a play and uses unusual, gloomy-looking sets and colors.

Some reviewers found it exciting and thoughtful, while others found it confusing, repetitive and too exaggerated.