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    ‘Fuze’ Evaluation: David Mackenzie’s Literal Ticking Time Bomb Thriller Isn’t Positive What to Do After Detonating

    David GroveBy David GroveSeptember 6, 20254 Mins Read
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    ‘Fuze’ Evaluation: David Mackenzie’s Literal Ticking Time Bomb Thriller Isn’t Positive What to Do After Detonating
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    In storytelling, the phrase “ticking time bomb” is known as a metaphor for an issue with a quickly approaching deadline that forces characters to scramble below strain to avert catastrophe. However if you happen to’ve ever heard a film described that method and been upset it wasn’t about characters discovering a literal time bomb and attempting to defuse it earlier than it stops ticking, David Mackenzie has made the film for you.

    “Fuze” finds the “Hell or Excessive Water” and “Relay” director (and screenwriter Ben Hopkins) literalizing the metaphor to thrilling impact in what is sort of definitely essentially the most entertaining film set at a muddy building web site that you simply’ll see all season. Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as Will Tranter, a significant within the British Military specializing in explosives, who is known as in after an outdated World Struggle II bomb is found underground at a London building web site. After evacuating the encompassing space amid an surprising explosion, he has to look at the bomb’s explosive capabilities — and both defuse it or execute a managed explosion earlier than anybody will get damage.

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    Taylor-Johnson comes throughout as a quintessential Man You Need in Cost in a Disaster, good-looking and ripped and keen to immediately take cost of the scenario. He clears the development crew, commandeers the foreman’s workplace, barks orders at his total bomb squad, and even orders pizzas and pre-pours celebratory pictures for what he sees as their inevitable success. The one flaw in his strategy is his reluctance to contemplate concepts from his subordinates — so when one among his corporals means that the bomb’s chemical properties point out it’s far newer than they initially thought, Will dismisses the notion and continues as if he’s coping with a battle relic.

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    The primary third of “Fuze” is downright gripping, with Mackenzie leaning on his technical filmmaking chops and Taylor-Johnson’s movie-star vibes to make a largely immobile building web site way more thrilling than it ought to be. However because the bomb squad and the police (led by Gugu Mbatha-Uncooked’s chief superintendent Zuzana) look deeper into the scenario, it turns into clear that the bomb was the least of their issues: It was really planted as a diversion to clear the block so {that a} crew of thieves might rob a financial institution vault. What started as a bomb-defusing job rapidly turns right into a police investigation, and what could possibly be the heist of the century.

    Mackenzie has lengthy been recognized for his skill to mix Hollywood spectacle with social commentary, however “Fuze” may be his most blatantly escapist movie so far. There’s no disgrace in that, because the world definitely wants extra really good bomb-turned-heist motion pictures, and “Fuze” usually appears like an concept that two 12-year-old boys would excitedly consider whereas daydreaming about their very own filmmaking careers. However even with a ridiculously enjoyable premise and quite a lot of twists, the movie by no means totally regains its preliminary suspense after the bomb explodes comparatively early within the movie. We be taught that Will is extra troubled than his aura of confidence suggests, and Johnson’s efficiency lends some complexity to the character, however nothing that follows can compete with the joy that the bomb offered.

    The third act could possibly be described as structurally curious, as Mackenzie and Hopkins introduce some late-in-the-game flashbacks that, whereas grippingly shot, derail the story and muddy the waters of who we’re alleged to be rooting for. The impact feels much less like intentional nihilism than poor pacing, and it builds towards an abrupt ending (that’s additionally the start) that denies us any actual catharsis with out including sufficient compelling data to justify the detour.

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    “Fuze” nonetheless accommodates the bones of an important film, and it’s value searching for out for Mackenzie followers or anybody searching for a twisty new thriller. However the movie’s largest takeaway may be that ticking time bomb storytelling works for a purpose, and films aren’t meant to proceed on for an additional hour after the primary plot machine explodes except you might have one thing actually unimaginable to switch the stress.

    “Fuze” may not be distinctive sufficient to interrupt out your best celebratory shot glasses, however you’re nonetheless unlikely to seek out one other movie that makes the sector of city building look so thrilling.

    Grade: B-

    “Fuze” premiered on the 2025 Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition. It’s at the moment searching for U.S. distribution.

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