Tom Cruise dared to try something different from his “Mission: Impossible” movies when he appeared as the titular character in “Digger,” which was released earlier this month.
The new movie, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu and costarring Riz Ahmed, John Goodman, and Sandra Hüller, follows as “[t]he most powerful man in the world embarks on a frantic mission to prove he is humanity’s savior before the disaster he’s unleashed destroys everything,” according to IMDb.
Despite the star power behind the movie, it “is bombastic, misanthropic and an epic, critically savaged flop,” The Guardian notes.
That was backed up by The New York Times stating that “[t]he film has been roundly savaged as a critical and financial catastrophe, a soon-to-be legendary flop that will go down alongside Mr. Cruise’s biggest public missteps, like the couch jumping, the Matt Lauer interview and ‘Knight and Day.'”
Indeed, it’s received less-than-favorable reviews from critics (to put it mildly), and after only taking in $8 million during its first weekend in US theaters, before dropping a massive 60% for the second weekend, it was pulled from over 2,500 theatres across the country before week three.
At the same time, The Guardian claims that “[i]t is also the near-perfect climate change film for our era.” Beyond that, “Digger might not be the climate film we want. But it may be the one we need.”
Although “[e]verything is unendurably loud” in the film and “nothing is funny,” The New York Times mentions that Iñárritu “has hidden a quiet, thoughtful movie about our collective failure to act on climate change inside the husk of a earsplitting, empty one. As a result, ‘Digger’ may be the best climate crisis movie ever made, cleverly disguised as the worst.”
The movie makes audiences face what’s happening around us due to our own actions, and although “[i]ts commercial failure, along with the ideological leanings of the movie studio overlords, may deter further attempts to give us unvarnished tales of the climate crisis,” The Guardian points out “[t]hat would be a huge, iceberg-sized mistake.”
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