Digger Rockwell is an oil tycoon whose family fortune runs deep; he has continued to expand his influence, maintains a direct line to the President of the United States, and is privy to highly classified information. When operations at his drilling sites in the Greenland ice sheet trigger a catastrophic accident, the resulting crisis threatens to engulf much of Northern Europe and upend the global balance of power—and, naturally, this is only the beginning. Relying on the one scientist with the courage to tell him the unvarnished truth—Dr. Ganesh—Digger attempts to set things right.
"It’s a comedy, but a furious comedy; it’s a mirror of great importance. It’s a truly fundamental film." (Denis Villeneuve)
"Alejandro González Iñárritu has never shied away from the weight of ambition, nor from the overflowing of his own auteurial ego. With Digger, the Mexican filmmaker steers toward shores where formal hypertrophy gives way to the grotesque, to brazen political satire, and to a terminal sense of disenchantment. [...] Digger stubbornly defies categorization: it is an ecological dystopia (retroactive, as we soon discover) that rejects maudlin sentimentality—an apocalyptic comedy that flirts with Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove, updated for the era of fossil-fueled hyper-capitalism and institutional ineptitude. [...] Yet Digger—which allows Iñárritu to once again play with the metatext of "behind-the-scenes" filmmaking (much like in Birdman and Bardo)—would not be the abrasive, spectacular work it is without the cannibalistic presence of a sensational Tom Cruise. Forget the dazzling smile, the testosterone-fueled heroism, and the indestructible physicality of Ethan Hunt or Pete "Maverick" Mitchell. [...] Supported by an excellent cast of thespians (from the ever-reliable Sandra Hüller to the incisive Riz Ahmed—all perfect cogs in this circus of the absurd), Digger is a deliberately unpleasant and at times exhausting film; uneven and imperfect, yes, but undeniably powerful and visceral—with a finale that reminds us that the post-apocalypse is already among us". (Valerio Sammarco)
