Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays bomb expert in 'Fuze' heist
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- Fuze is a London heist thriller directed by David Mackenzie and written by Ben Hopkins, deploying double- and triple-crosses that culminate in a reveal involving diamonds — some fake, some real.
- Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as Major Will Tranter, a bomb disposal officer called in when what appears to be a WWII unexploded device is found at a London building site, making a worrying ticking noise.
- Gugu Mbatha-Raw plays the Met's chief superintendent who shuts off electricity across the area and orders a full evacuation, unaware the bomb is a heist diversion.
- Theo James and Sam Worthington lead a crew of bank robbers exploiting the evacuation to tunnel through a wall into a safe-deposit vault from a neighbouring basement.
- The robbers are compared to the geriatric thieves behind London's 2015 Hatton Garden safe-deposit heist, but pitched by the reviewer as a much younger, sexier version.
- The film borrows the 'three-second bank transfer' device popularized by TV's The Night Manager, letting viewers monitor in real time whether millions of dollars move before the window closes.
- Tranter's corporal suspects the bomb is too modern to be WWII, hinting at what the reviewer calls potentially the biggest diversionary tactic in criminal history.
Why it matters: Fuze's high-concept hook — a WWII bomb staged as cover for a bank vault heist — borrows from the 2015 Hatton Garden job and the bank-transfer device from The Night Manager. With Taylor-Johnson, Mbatha-Raw, James, and Worthington attached, the commercial bet is whether star power outweighs the 'borderline ridiculous' plot contortions the reviewer flags.
