‘Fuze’ Review: A Starry Cast Lends Only So Much Excitement to a Movie About a WW2 Bomb Unearthed in Central London

‘Fuze’ Review: David Mackenzie’s '90s Throwback Actioner Is All Killer, No Filler

“Fuze,” the latest all killer, no filler thriller from “Hell or High Water” director David Mackenzie, that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, is built around an ingeniously straightforward premise – an unexploded bomb, left over from World War II, is discovered on a London construction site. While a bomb disposal unit, led by Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and the London police, overseen by Gugu Mbatha-Raw, deal with potentia…

‘Fuze’ Review: A Starry Cast Lends Only So Much Excitement to a Movie About a WW2 Bomb Unearthed in Central London

Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James and Sam Worthington bring a bit of intrigue to 'Fuze,' which otherwise feels too much like what else is out there.

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

In storytelling, the phrase “ticking time bomb” is understood as a metaphor for a problem with a rapidly approaching deadline that forces characters to scramble under pressure to avert disaster. But if you’ve ever heard a movie described that way and been disappointed it wasn’t about characters finding a literal time bomb and trying to defuse it before it stops ticking, David Mackenzie has made the movie for you. “Fuze” finds the “Hell or High W…