6 April 2026 – Cinema Club went to see ‘Fuze’ at the Showcase Cinema today.  The synopsis on the cinema website was as follows:

“When a World War II bomb is discovered in central London a team of military experts led by Will (Aaron Taylor-Johnson), are sent in to investigate and defuse it. A huge police operation is put into action to evacuate thousands of local residents. Amidst the chaos of the situation a group of men, under the guidance of diamond-expert Karalis (Theo James), are hiding out in a basement within the evacuation zone. With emergency services stretched to the limit and the bomb ready to explode, the group begin an audacious jewel heist under cover of the ultimate distraction.”

The leading members of the cast were: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Sam Worthington, Theo James, Honor Swinton Byrne, Saffron Hocking, Luke Mably, Elham Ehsas, Atul Sharma, Gugu Mbatha-Raw; and the film was directed by David Mackenzie, known for ‘Starred-Up’, ‘Perfect Sense’ and ‘Hell or High Water’.  The screenplay was written by Ben Hopkins.

This was a full-on, twisty, heist, action movie, running at full speed from start to finish.  Whilst not my favourite type of film, I will acknowledge that the plot was good, the performances were good, and even the twists were good.  There just wasn’t anything great about it for me.  The other members all seemed to enjoy it to one degree or another.

Mark Kermode found it to be “Oddly televisual….perhaps because it was a Sky Original Movie……Lively, watchable fare with lots of twists……solid, but unremarkable……perfectly decent and enjoyable…..can’t imagine too many people rushing to the cinema to see it”.

I gave it a score of 5, whilst ‘IMDB’ gave it 6.4 and the ‘Rotten Tomatoes’ score was 7.8 (78%).

Fraser