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Ancient Greece is as known for Achilles and Odysseus as for its achievements in democracy and philosophy. Medieval England is remembered less for the Plantagenets than for the legends of King Arthur and Robin Hood. The wild west has Davy Crockett, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. </p> 695 696<p>Years from now, people may look back on the past 40 years not as the era of the post-cold war consensus, 9/11 or the great recession, but as the age of Tom Cruise.</p> 697 698<p>Throughout his long and varied career, Cruise has accompanied generations of moviegoers. He was on screen throughout the explosion of neo-liberal consumerism in films such as Rain Man (1988) and Jerry Maguire (1996). He entertained viewers through the age of global terror, through the paranoid espionage of his early Mission: Impossible films, or the surveillance capitalism of Minority Report (2002). </p> 699 700 701 702 703<p style="margin:2rem 0;padding:14px 16px;border-left:10px solid #FF6A00;background:#fafafa;font-size:18px;line-height:1.5;"> 704 <strong>ðð»ââï¸ð¤ MAN AND ROBOTS</strong> lands in your inbox every Friday: AI, Hollywood, and the future of work. 705 <a href="https://marsmag.substack.com/subscribe?utm_source=marsmag&utm_medium=article&utm_campaign=midarticle" style="color:#FF6A00;font-weight:700;">Get it free â</a> 706</p> 707 708 709 710<p>And as his off-screen life <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/tom-cruise-rant-sofa-top-10-b1774879.html">has often been manic</a>, so too have his films exploded onscreen. His body has contorted, stretched and leaped across impossible boundaries to keep the public entertained while society grows hotter and threatens to burn.</p> 711 712<p>His latest film, Digger, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu of The Revenant (2015) and Birdman (2014), is a culmination of all these concerns. That doesnât make it any good. But it does make Cruiseâs presence the most interesting thing about a film that is otherwise much too full of itself.</p> 713 714<figure> 715 <iframe width="440" height="260" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/job8V254NAE?wmode=transparent&start=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe> 716 <figcaption><span class="caption">The trailer for Digger.</span></figcaption> 717 </figure> 718 719<p>Cruise plays the eponymous Digger Rockwell, a brash, boorish oil tycoon with a mad southern accent operating somewhere between Dallas and Wyoming. Set in the near future, Rockwell runs his oil empire with a mixture of charm and callousness. He makes sure to remember all his employeesâ names and families while dismissing their grave concerns about the safety of his latest drilling operation in Greenland. </p> 720 721<p>As things escalate and the safety of the world is at stake, a Dr Strangelove-meets-Dogville satire unfolds, in which idiotic US presidents and ineffectual do-gooders all fail to prevent the worst from happening. And the worst happens. A lot.</p> 722 723<h2>Accidental ironies</h2> 724 725<p>All the while, Cruiseâs face seems to slowly melt onscreen, buried beneath layers of prosthetics and makeup. With every frame, Diggerâs body seems to sag, his head pulsates and leaks, and his hairline appears to recede. </p> 726 727<p>Itâs a hell of a way to treat the formerly ageless Cruiseâs body. And a stark contrast to the razor-sharp physique he showcased on the <a href="https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/tom-cruise-october-2026-cover-story">cover of GQ</a> magazine just weeks prior to promote the film, as if to reassure us that his real-world canvas remains untouched by the decaying spectacle on screen.</p> 728 729<p>Some critics will likely call Cruiseâs performance a âbraveâ attempt to take on a less glamorous role than the more generic action heroes he has been playing recently. But herein lies the disappointing paradox of Digger. It is a film trying to convey an urgent message, but undercuts itself at every turn by refusing to either let us laugh, or treat its own premise with sincerity.</p> 730 731<p>Digger wants us to recognise the artificiality of everything onscreen so that we can appreciate it, to know that what we are watching is a construction and adopt a knowing gaze in response. But this simply destroys the filmâs ability to matter. As a climate satire, itâs about as sharp as a sponge.</p> 732 733 734 735<p>As a meditation on Cruiseâs stardom, itâs equally deceptive. We watch Cruise climb into a rubber body suit to make himself look old, allowing us to forget that, at 64, there is something almost vampirically unnatural about his supposedly âagelessâ appearance off-screen.</p> 736 737<p>As we learn more about the man Cruise is playing, the harsher edges that might invite comparisons with the real-life star become ways of differentiating him. Digger flies around in a private jet eating sushi as climate change threatens all around him, but there is no attempt to consider the irony of Cruise â a man known whimsically for sending <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021
737/dec/15/i-challenged-tom-cruise-to-send-me-two-of-his-special-cakes-for-christmas-did-he-deliver-of-course-he-did">gifts around the world in his private fleet</a> â performing such scenes. </p> 738 739<p>Digger has a good relationship with his daughter, whom he spends much of the film worrying about. <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2026/07/28/tom-cruises-estranged-daughter-suri-drops-surname-huge-milestone-29239818/">Itâs unlikely to real-life contrasts can be made there either</a>. Oh, and thereâs a twist Iâm not going to tell you about. Sadly, it makes everything even worse.</p> 740 741<p>There is something about Cruise that <a href="https://www.fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/on-tom-cruises-animated-face">resists fixed meanings</a>. Both his offscreen persona and onscreen mannerisms are alluring yet deceptive, familiar to us all yet equally unreal. A film confronting those anxieties should have had something to say about our increasingly post-truth world dominated by powerful ageing men who lie. Itâs a shame that Digger doesnât.</p> 742 743<p>It is a film far more concerned with looking clever than being clever. Perhaps that, in itself, says something about the world in which we live. For this is the age of Cruise. All hail the king.</p> 744 745 746 747<br> 748<br> 749<p style="font-size:70%;"><font color="lightgrey">Cover image: A scene from ‘Digger’ via <a href="https://warnerbros.com">Warner Bros.</a></font></p> 750<p style="font-size:70%;"><font color="lightgrey">Source: <a href="https://theconversation.com">The Conversation</a></font></p>
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