‘Digger’ is the year’s big climate movie. This climate reporter hated it.

This one is off topic for home energy upgrades, but here's what it's about.

A new movie called "Digger," directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu and starring Tom Cruise, is being pitched as this year's big climate film. Cruise plays an oil executive named Digger Rockwell, loosely modeled on real-life fracking billionaire Harold Hamm, whose company has produced hundreds of millions of tons of carbon dioxide. In the plot, a methane leak on one of Digger's Greenland rigs cracks the island's ice sheet, which then collapses and sends a massive iceberg toward Europe, threatening to flood the continent. Rather than stop drilling, Digger and a fictional president decide to keep going and try to censor mentions of the crisis online.

The review is harsh. The writer calls the film heavy-handed, loud, and emotionally empty, comparing it unfavorably to "Don't Look Up," the earlier climate satire about a comet. Long scenes of shouting between Digger and other characters, including a blowup with the European parliament, are described as exhausting rather than illuminating. The reviewer argues the film doesn't say anything a climate-conscious viewer doesn't already know, and doubts it will change anyone's mind or behavior, much like earlier climate satires didn't.

There's nothing here about rebates, heat pumps, weatherization, or any program that affects your house. It's a film review, not energy news, so there's no action to take based on this one.